What’s in store for 2022?
With all the major marathons still ahead this season – and so many records broken last year – it is tantalising to imagine what might happen in 2022 as athletes become even more familiar with the new wave of technically-advanced road running shoes made to break records.
The adidas adizero franchise accolades of 2021 show some remarkable results: By the end of the 2021 season 54% of adidas athletes, competing in the top 50 elite races, had gone on to win while wearing adizero and, in doing so, they broke seven world records.
The Majors
At the 2021 World Major Marathons, adidas adizero athletes crossed the finish line first on six occasions, by an average of 27 seconds, and featured on the podium another six times. Most notably, Peres Jepchirchir went on to complete a women’s first of a major marathon win and Olympics marathon gold in the same season.
World Records in 2021
- Peres Jepchirchir: Women’s-only half marathon record twice in Valencia and Prague.
- Kibiwott Kandie: Half marathon record of 57 minutes 32 seconds in Valencia.
- Agnes Jebet Tirop: Women’s-only 10km world record, which had stood for 19 years, of 30:01.
- Senbere Teferi: Women’s-only 5km world record of 14:29.
- Kalkidan Gezahegne: Women’s mixed 10km in 29:38 in Geneva
- Dawit Seyaum: Women’s mixed 5km in Lille in 14:41
The successful integration of the Lightstrike Pro cushioning system, along with energy rods in the midsole, has resulted in the latest range of adizero shoes giving the dedicated runner all they need to chase down records.
2022 Race Schedule
March: Tokyo (TBC)
April: Boston
October: London
September: Berlin
October: Chicago
November: New York, Cape Town (under review to become the seventh Major Marathon)
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