{"id":1040010089,"date":"2026-03-01T08:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/?p=1040010089"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:24:53","slug":"brigid-kosgei-wins-tokyo-marathon-in-21429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/news\/brigid-kosgei-wins-tokyo-marathon-in-21429-1040010089\/","title":{"rendered":"Brigid Kosgei wins Tokyo Marathon in 2:14:29"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenyan clocks seventh fastest women's time in history, while Tadese Takele wins three-way sprint finish in men's race in 2:03:37.<\/p>\n

Brigid Kosgei showed a fine return to form to win the Tokyo Marathon women's race on Sunday (March 1) in 2:14:29. The 32-year-old won her first marathon major for four years and came close to her best time of 2:14:04, which was a world record when she set it in Chicago seven years ago.<\/p>\n

The men's race, meanwhile, saw a thrilling finish with Tadese Takele of Ethiopia clocking 2:03:37 to hold off Geofry Toroitich Kipchumba \u2013 the Kenyan given the same time as Takele \u2013 with another Kenyan, Alexander Mutiso Munyao, just a further second back in fourth.<\/p>\n

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Tadese Takele (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Kosgei it was the seventh fastest women's time in history and the second quickest performance of her life to regain a Tokyo title she claimed in 2021. She also improved the course record and Japanese all-comers' record of 2:15:55 set by two-time winner Sutume Asefa Kebede in 2024.<\/p>

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Brigid Kosgei (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kebede was prominent for much of the race here but faded to fourth in the latter stages as Bertukan Welde came through for second place in 2:16:36 and Hawi Feysa pipped Kebede for third, both runners clocking 2:17:39.<\/p>\n

Takele became only the second man to win back-to-back Tokyo titles. He saw off a fine field, too, which included Muktar Edris, the two-time world 5000m champion from Ethiopia who was fifth in 2:04:07.<\/p>\n

Iliass Aouani ran an Italian record of 2:04:26 in sixth.<\/p>\n

Another top Ethiopian, Selemon Barega, the Tokyo Olympics 10,000m gold medallist, was seventh in 2:05:00.<\/p>

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Tokyo Marathon (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Men
\n1 Tadese TKosgei (KEN) 2:14:29; 2 Bertukan Welde (ETH) 2:16:36; 3 Hawi Feysa (ETH) 2:17:39; 4 Sutume Asefa Kebede (ETH) 2:17:39; 5 Megertu 2:03:44; 5 Muktar Edris (ETH) 2:04:07<\/p>\n

Women
\n1 Brigid Kosgei (KEN) 2:14:29; 2 Bertukan Welde (ETH) 2:16:36; 3 Hawi Feysa (ETH) 2:17:39; 4 Sutume Asefa Kebede (ETH) 2:17:39; 5 Megertu Alemu (ETH) 2:18:50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenyan clocks seventh fastest women's time in history, while Tadese Takele wins three-way sprint finish in men's race in 2:03:37. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1040010091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_championship":0,"wds_primary_country":0,"wds_primary_sports":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,160],"tags":[],"championship":[],"country":[],"sports":[35992],"class_list":["post-1040010089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reports","sports-marathon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040010089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040010089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040010089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040010091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040010089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040010089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040010089"},{"taxonomy":"championship","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/championship?post=1040010089"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=1040010089"},{"taxonomy":"sports","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sports?post=1040010089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}