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#2 Amelie Mauresmo
The former World Number 1 retired in the December of 2009 and ran her very firs marathon next year itself when she competed at the 2010 New York City Marathon alongside other tennis players such as Yannick Noah and Justin Gimelstob.
For a person who took her tennis career and fitness quite seriously, Mauresmo even prepped for the marathon with the same vigour and attitude under her former tennis trainers. And well, her efforts did pay off for she managed to clock a timing of 3 hours 40 minutes and 20 seconds over the 42-kilometre distance.
The former coach of Andy Murray followed up this feat by running the Paris Marathon on her home soil in 2012 and bettered her timing by a margin for she reached the finish line in 3 hours 16 minutes and forty-nine seconds.
