Why is Keitany's win a "WR"?

Paula Radcliffe is the women's marathon WR holder. Go lol all all-athletics and search world records and you will find it.

It wasn't so much the win as it was how fast she ran.

Jap wrote:

Paula Radcliffe is the women's marathon WR holder.

Wrong. Radcliffe only holds the mixed gender world record.

Isn't it odd that she gets the "women's only" world record yet the men's race had hired pacers? If pacers are an option then why not have pacers for the women's race too?

New Women's World Record wrote:

Mary Keitany broke the women's world record and earned the following:

$55,000 for the win

$100,000 for sub-2:18

$25,000 for the course record

and $125,000 for the world record

Total = $305,000

Source:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/04/mary-keitany-won-300000-today/

Cute...definitely cute!

I heard Paula Radcliffe made a comment on Mary Keitany while commentating that she hoped she would pay for the fast pace! I realized Radcliffe was about to lose the only world record still remaining in her name. You remember a few weeks ago her 10K World record was destroyed by not just one athlete but two in Joyceline Jepkosgei and Violah Chepchumba when they ran 30:04 and 30:05. That record had stood since 2002 and except for Violah coming to within 3 seconds last year, no one had come close. And now while mourning he loss, she was witnessing (and commentating) an assault on her remaining record! That had to be hard to handle. I am not surprised if she shed tears on live TV as Mary was on 2:12 projected finishing time!

She wasn't happy. Also, while talking about the Sumgong case, she suggested that Kenya could be banned like Russia. Then Steve Cram tried to explain that there's a difference between a state sponsored program and rogue cheaters coming from the same country.

Interesting.. They have tried for years to dope up Kenyans/Ethiopians in every way but still not manage to surpass Radcliffe. The only way to take her World Record crown away is to change the rules... and here we are.

analyzer wrote:

Jap wrote:

It's an "all woman's" WR. In other words no men in the race. Radcliffe ran her record in a men/women race.

Keitany has the world record in an all women's race. The world record in a men's/women's race is Dennis Kimetto's 2h 02 mins 57 secs in Berlin in 2014.

Simple.

El Keniano wrote:

She wasn't happy. Also, while talking about the Sumgong case, she suggested that Kenya could be banned like Russia. Then Steve Cram tried to explain that there's a difference between a state sponsored program and rogue cheaters coming from the same country.

That was Brandon Foster, but I agreed with your point.

Yawn wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

She wasn't happy. Also, while talking about the Sumgong case, she suggested that Kenya could be banned like Russia. Then Steve Cram tried to explain that there's a difference between a state sponsored program and rogue cheaters coming from the same country.

That was Brandon Foster, but I agreed with your point.

Paula's record days are numbered. Kietany or Dibaba would distroy it, and there's still Ayana in the horizon when she moves to the road.

I say Berlin 2017 is a good opportunity to aggressively attack that Paula record and finish this story.

Footstrike wrote:

I say Berlin 2017 is a good opportunity to aggressively attack that Paula record and finish this story.

Maybe 2018. Mary Keitany will be running at the world championships in August, making her a no-show for Berlin marathon. Dibaba is also 90% running at the London Worlds. Apart from that, it is also not easy to produce crazy fast times twice in a season, with exception of freaks of nature like Eliud Kipchoge.

New Women's World Record wrote:

Mary Keitany broke the women's world record and earned the following:

$55,000 for the win

$100,000 for sub-2:18

$25,000 for the course record

and $125,000 for the world record

Total = $305,000

Source:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/04/mary-keitany-won-300000-today/

Damn...that's a heck of a payday!💰.Where can you make 300 G's for just a little over 2 hrs of excercise. She looked very fresh after that race, and if she could have ran another marathon. Lucrative sport for top elite marathoners these days.

People are saying that because of:

- typical jealousy when someone does well, especially a tall blonde white woman with long legs, who looks like a runner who has trained for years should look and with a history of verificable elite athletic performances from her junior days

- misogynists who don't like women like to claim its fair that the men can be paced by faster runners but the women can't.

- obviously a new role for transgender athletes thus arises. Women can be paced by male - female marathon runners and no-one will dare complain. What a pity Semenya is so chunky - a whole new career once her 800m days are over could have opened up!

Alternatively, lets start anew for all paced records and only count those without pacemakers. Oh no, that's no good - that would rule out most male WRs!

jgaojd wrote:

Isn't it odd that she gets the "women's only" world record yet the men's race had hired pacers? If pacers are an option then why not have pacers for the women's race too?

Women can have women pacers, but not men pacers, see.

Intellectually Challenged wrote:

Damn...that's a heck of a payday!💰.Where can you make 300 G's for just a little over 2 hrs of excercise.

You live up to your username. The answer is basically any other pro sport.

Not the women's world record wrote:

Jap wrote:

Paula Radcliffe is the women's marathon WR holder.

Wrong. Radcliffe only holds the mixed gender world record.

Radcliffe holds the women's marathon WR, shtbrain

Footstrike wrote:

Yawn wrote:

That was Brandon Foster, but I agreed with your point.

Paula's record days are numbered. Kietany or Dibaba would distroy it, and there's still Ayana in the horizon when she moves to the road.

The Kenyan Mary Keitany and the Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba have finally passed the Russian Doper Liliya Shobukhova (2:18:20) on the all-time list.

The Brit Paula Radcliffe is still on top of the all-time list.

There is nothing here to cause anxiety in Ms. Paula Radcliffe.