![]() Alene Shewarge Amara and Patricia Jardon also have won the race on three occasions. Course record holder Hillary Kimaiyo Kipchirchir is the most successful man, with three wins to his name. The most successful athlete of the competition is María del Carmen Díaz, who took four wins from 1993 to 1997. Gladys Tejeda's time of 2:36:16 hours in 2017. Hillary Kimaiyo Kipchirchir won in a record time of 2:12:10 hours in 2010, while the women's course record for the event is held by Peruvian. ![]() The men's course record for the event is held by Kenyan. Since 2002 only one Mexican man has won the race, and no Mexican woman has won since 2010. Eileen Claugus of the United States was the first foreign winner in 1987, and Ethiopia's Tesfaye Tafa became the first male foreign winner two years later. The competition was mostly national in nature until the turn of the 21st century, when more elite international runners began to compete, and win, at the race. The winner of the first women's race, María del Carmen Cárdenas, later became one of the first female Olympic marathon runners for Mexico. The race was established in 1983 at a time of growing interest in marathons in the country – the Independencia Marathon had been launched three years earlier and the Monterrey Marathon had been run over the full distance in 1982. The Mexico City Marathon ( Spanish: Maratón Internacional de la Ciudad de México) is an annual road running event over the marathon distance 42.19 kilometres (26.22 mi) which is held on the streets of Mexico City in late August or early September that in 2018 received IAAF Gold Label Status. Lithuanian Diana Lobačevskė, the 2016 women's winner. Mexico City Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera starting the 2013 race. Evans, Hilary Gjerde, Arild Heijmans, Jeroen Mallon, Bill et al.^ "Games: Tejeda grabs gold for Peru with win in women's marathon".^ Maratón de Río 2016: Gladys Tejeda logró histórico puesto 15.^ "Winner of women's marathon at Pan Am Games stripped of medal for doping".^ "Odepa confirms Gladys Tejeda tests positive for doping - Peru this Week"." Atleta Gladys Tejeda será la abanderada de Perú en Londres 2012". ^ London 2012 site Archived at the Wayback Machine. ![]() ^ Listado Oficial de Atletas Participantes - Gladys Lucy Tejeda Pucuhuaranga (in Spanish), retrieved June 12, 2014.^ Biography - TEJEDA Gladys Lucy (in Spanish), retrieved June 12, 2014.She won a gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games in the Marathon event. In 2017, she finished as champion again in the XXXV edition of the Mexico City Marathon with a time of 2:36:16 setting the women's course record for the event. On August 14, 2016, Tejeda was ranked 15th in Women's Marathon in the Rio 2016 Olympics with a time of 2:29:55. The statement said that Tejeda would be temporarily suspended from international competition. ![]() On September 10, 2015, she has been stripped of her gold medal by the Committee who said in a statement that Tejeda had tested positive for furosemide, a diuretic on the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned list because it is used to mask other drugs. A few weeks after the games, Julio César Maglione, president of the Pan American Sports Organization announced that Gladys Tejeda tested positive for doping, which she denied. In 2015, she won the Marathon Gold Medal in the Pan American Games, setting a new Pan-American record of 2:33:05. She finished in third place at Pan-American Games, in Guadalajara, 2011. In 2013, she finished as champion in the XXXI edition of the Mexico City Marathon with a time of 2:37:35. Further she was selected as Peru's flag-bearer for the 2012 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations. She competed in women's marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Gladys Lucy Tejeda Pucuhuaranga (born 30 September 1985 in Jauja, Junín) is a Peruvian long-distance runner. South American Championships in Athletics South American Half Marathon Championships
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