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Ruth Chepngetich's marathon world record - stats and shoes behind Chicago time

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Ruth Chepngetich took nearly two minutes off Ethiopian Tigst Assefa's world record.

The 30-year-old Kenyan clocked two hours nine minutes 57 seconds at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday .

She came through the halfway mark in 1:04:16 , which would have been the fifth -fastest womenâs half-marathon time in history.

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