Former American girls’s marathon document holder, Denna Kastor, 49, completed the 2022 Berlin Marathon in 2:45:12 to put forty eighth general within the girls’s discipline. Kastor earned her sixth star together with her ends in Berlin, for having completed all six World Main Marathons.
Kastor had hopes of hitting the U.S. Olympic Trials commonplace of two:37:00in Berlin. Whereas she got here up in need of that, she did end second within the girls’s 45-49 age group.
Kastor has raced the opposite 5 majors (Boston, London, Tokyo, Chicago and New York Metropolis), and though she was set to race Berlin in 2019, an ankle damage dashed these plans. Kastor is among the high marathoners in American historical past, and up till this 12 months, she held the nationwide document at 2:19:36, set on the 2006 London Marathon, which she gained.
Keira D’Amato broke Kastor’s document on the Houston Marathon in January 2022, when she ran 2:19:12–D’Amato ran a slower race in Berlin on Sunday, operating 2:21:28.
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Kastor additionally held the American half-marathon document of 1:07:34 till 2018, when Molly Huddle ran 1:07:25. In addition to her former information, Kastor has gained many races all through her profession, together with a number of World Majors: London in 2006, and Chicago in 2005. She additionally gained a bronze medal within the marathon on the 2004 Athens Olympics. Her most up-to-date World Main Marathon look got here in 2019 on the Tokyo Marathon.
Kastor’s objective of finishing all six World Majors is a objective held by many marathoners (each newbie and professional) world wide, together with the nice Eliud Kipchoge, who bested his world document time within the Berlin marathon with a time of two:01:09.
