![]() ![]() I will celebrate this record and have to realise what happens. Kipchoge is the only man to run a sub-two hour marathon when he clocked 1:59.40 on a specially designed track in Vienna in 2019 but the time is not officially recognised as it was not set in competition.Īsked whether he would attempt a sub-two hour run in Berlin next year, Kipchoge said: “Let us plan for another day. Passing through the city’s iconic Brandenburg Gate just as the sun started to emerge, a beaming Kipchoge crossed the finish line to set another record. Having slowed slightly in the second half of the race he still powered through the final 500-metre sprint. The Kenyan, who retained his Olympic at the Tokyo Games last year, had fallen short of his world mark by just over a minute at the Tokyo Marathon in March, but he was not to be denied in Berlin. He gradually shook off last year’s winner Guye Adola but fellow Ethiopian Andamlak Belihu refused to buckle, even as they raced through the halfway mark in a time of 59.10.īelihu finally dropped back around the 27 kilometre-mark as Kipchoge pushed on for the record. ![]() ![]() Only a handful of runners could keep up with Kipchoge in the early stages, along with the group of pacemakers. Sport unites people and that is what motivates me.” Kipchoges current world record run broke by 30 seconds his own 2018 world record, which was in turn a 78-second improvement over the existing best, the greatest improvement in a marathon world record time since 1967. “What motivates is my family I and I want to inspire young people. ![]()
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