# @citiusmag on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-04-29T19:41:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CITIUS MAG (@citiusmag) — https://gondola.cc/citiusmag

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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. But if you made the top five with only one performance, it must’ve been a damn good one.

Here’s where we landed:
5️⃣ fotyentesfayhaylu 🇪🇹 
4️⃣ shazrine 🇰🇪 
3️⃣ brigidkosgeithereal 🇰🇪 
2️⃣ hellenobiri 🇰🇪 
1️⃣ tigist__assefa 🇪🇹 

Honorable mentions: Sifan Hassan (2025 Sydney champ; pulled out of London with injury) Peres Jepchirchir (reigning World champ; pulled out of London with injury), Hawi Feysa (2025 Chicago champ; third in Tokyo), Joyciline Jepkosgei (2025 Valencia champ; third in London)

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