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2026-04-20 12:53 UTC
Bedatu Hirpa (107/HIRPA) ran 2:18:27 last year to win in Dubai. She’s also won in Paris, Prague, Riyadh, and Athens; the Athens win was nine years ago in 2017, when she was only eighteen. She’s never run Boston before, and she was 11th in Chicago last fall, so her history with Majors is uneven to say the least. She’s got some speed (she started out as a 1500m runner) so it will be interesting to see if she’s still in the pack coming out of Newton.
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@flashesofpanic@ruby.social 2026-04-20 12:54
Emily Sisson (108/SISSON) is the US record holder at 2:18:29. She might be the sixth-fastest in the field, but her PB is also one of the oldest; most of these women ran sub-2:20 in the last year or two, but Sisson’s mark goes back to Chicago 2022. She’s won a bunch of US championships but no big international wins (2nd in Chicago 2022 is her best international result).