# @citiusmag on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXulLIzlZPm
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64836206-citiusmag-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-29T19:46:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CITIUS MAG (@citiusmag) — https://gondola.cc/citiusmag

## Caption

After the end of the spring World Marathon Majors, it’s a great time to take stock and look at who the best marathoners in the world are right now. 📊

In some ways, defining “right now” is just as difficult as forecasting out to 2028. Do we only consider races run in 2026? How long ago is too long to be relevant? Ultimately, it’s a bit hard to say definitively, but we tried our best to focus on the last 12 months of racing.

As always, marathoning accomplishments fall into two main buckets: how fast you run and who you beat. Even though this is a snapshot of world marathoning as it currently stands in April 2026, you’ll see a slight bias toward runners who’ve proven they can be consistently good over intermittently great—which of course slightly hurts the two marathoners on this list who’ve only run one marathon.

Here’s where we landed:
5️⃣ simbualphonce 
4️⃣ yomif_kejelcha 
3️⃣ jacob_kiplimo 
2️⃣ johnkorir_ 
1️⃣ sabastiansawe 

Honorable mentions: Benson Kipruto (2025 NYC champ; third in Boston); Amos Kipruto (fourth in London; 2nd in 2025 Chicago), Tadese Takele (2025 and 2026 Tokyo champ), Tamirat Tola (fifth in London, Doha champ), Alexander Munyao (second in 2025 NYC; third in 2026 Tokyo and 2025 London)

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