{"podcast":{"title":"Running--State of the Sport","slug":"running-state-of-the-sport-6598897","podcast_index_feed_id":6598897,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/3da1e180/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://runningstateofthesport.blogspot.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/10240192/10240192-1689180001666-cfbd7734f790c.jpg","author":"Amby Burfoot and George Hirsch","episode_count":66,"summary":"The podcast where we talk to the smartest, most informed, most influential, and sometimes fastest runners on the planet.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T00:19:16.160921+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/running-state-of-the-sport-6598897"},"episode":{"title":"2025 Year In Review","slug":"2025-year-in-review","published_at":"2026-01-01T22:56:44+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/running-state-of-the-sport-6598897/2025-year-in-review","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/running-state-of-the-sport-6598897","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a617/episodes/2025-Year-In-Review-e3d2jrk","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/3da1e180/podcast/play/113380660/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-1%2F1f828b22-b069-98ce-2127-f275c2f9a4f3.mp3","summary":"Who won? In global marathons 2025, several of the biggest races ended in near photo finishes. Here Benson Kipruto edges out Alexander Mutiso in the NYC Marathon. Kipruto became the first male marathoner to have won Boston, Chicago, and New York in his career. (Ingrid Kristiansen has achieved the Triple for females.) Other male marathon highlights: Sebastian Sawe won his second and third big marathons (London; Berlin) in three marathon starts, all with times in the low 2:02s. His 2:02:16 in Berlin, after extensive pre-race drug testing, was the fastest time of the year. And American Conner Mantz took a big chunk off the American Record for the marathon when he ran 2:04:43 at Chicago. On the women's side, Peres Jepchirchir won a thrilling World Championships Marathon in Tokyo, but then couldn't hold off Joyciline Jepkosgei in Valencia in December. Jepkosgei won there in 2:14:00, the fastest time of the year. The World Championships produced a surprising result in the men's 5000 and 10,000 when seven of the top ten finishers (including both winners) were NOT from East Africa. Cole Hocker picked up his second gold medal in two years, winning the 5000 in Tokyo after taking the 1500 in the Paris Olympics.In the women's springs, Melissa Jefferson Wooden was the standout of the year, winning almost everything she entered by a wide margin. For some reason we can't fathom, World Athletics didn't name her the top female speedster of the year, giving the nod to Sydney McLaughlin Levrone, who was sensational as always. But ...??? And those high schoolers, OMG! A 16 year old high school sophomore from Texas, Cooper Lutkenhaus, finished second in the USATF National Champs 800 with a time of 1:42.27. That approaches the unimaginable. Jane Hedengren posted record performance after reco…","meta_description":"Who won? In global marathons 2025, several of the biggest races ended in near photo finishes. Here Benson Kipruto edges out Alexander Mutiso in the NYC Ma…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3793,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/running-state-of-the-sport-6598897/episodes/2025-year-in-review/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/running-state-of-the-sport-6598897/2025-year-in-review.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}