On the 2024 TCS London Marathon, 76-year-old operating sensation Jeannie Rice shattered her personal world document within the ladies’s 75-79 age group, clocking in at a formidable three hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds. She surpassed her earlier world document set simply final October in Chicago (at age 75) by greater than a minute.
Rice not solely received the W75-79 age class on the TCS London Marathon by half-hour, she additionally would’ve received the boys’s 75-79 class by 11 minutes. She averaged a ridiculous 5:03/km (or eight-minute mile tempo) at age 76 for 42.2K.
Rice advised media post-race that she was completely satisfied to have run an age-group document, however hoped to complete nearer to 3 hours and half-hour. “I fell off within the first few miles… I assume I’ll should determine it out and run higher in Berlin,” she stated.
This isn’t Rice’s first grasp’s world document. She additionally holds the ladies’s 70-74 marathon document of three:27:50, which she set in 2018 at 70. This accomplishment provides to her spectacular resume of grasp’s world information in distance operating.
Final 12 months, Rice ran 10 seconds sooner (3:33:15 on the Boston Marathon), however Boston’s point-to-point, net-downhill course makes it ineligible for document functions. She has accomplished all six Abbott World Marathon Majors, and received her age class in every.
Rice considers herself a snowbird, as she lives and trains in her hometown of Mentor, Ohio for six months of the 12 months earlier than heading to Naples, Fla., for six months each winter.
Rice’s document on the 2024 London Marathon is pending ratification from World Masters Athletics (WMA).
