Chinese Olympic Marathon Trials see course record, third-best run all-time


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Peng Jianhua won the Chinese Marathon Championships in 2:08:50, the third-fastest result in national history Photo by: Twitter/gabyandersengz 30, 2020 The 2020 Nanjing Marathon took place on Sunday in China , and the race doubled as the national championships and Olympic Trials . Peng Jianhua won the men’s race in a personal best (and course record) of 2:08:50, and Li Dan took the women’s win in 2:26:59, also a PB. In total, four men and four women ran under the Olympic standards of 2:11:30 and 2:29:30. The top four men, led by Jianhua, ran sub-2:10, a feat that only one...