“I knew that I couldn’t set a new record due to the heat, the heat plus the altitude made it difficult to set a new record. It is one more step, one more triumph in my sporting life and it is an incentive for me”, said Christian Pacheco Mendoza upon winning the thirty-sixth edition of the Los Andes Marathon, which ran 42 kilometers from the province of Jauja to the Huancayo stadium in the Uncontroversial City.
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Pacheco Mendoza did a time of 2 hours and 18 minutes (his previous record was two hours and 15 minutes)
In women, it was the representative of Kenya who won the competition comfortably as she came in first place with a wide advantage over her closest competitor, with a time of 2 hours and 22 minutes.
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