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Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge added a Tokyo Marathon title to his unmatched resume, winning with the fourth-fastest marathon time in history. Kipchoge, the two-time Olympic champion and world-record holder, clocked 2:02:40 to prevail by 33 seconds. He gapped countryman Amos Kipruto in the 23rd of 26.2 miles. The top men lost about 10 seconds due to the field taking …

Watch ‘history unfold’ as Eliud Kipchoge runs marathon in under two hours Eliud Kipchoge is among five finalists for the Male World Athlete 2019 award. The Kenyan, 35, became the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours at in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria in October. Kipchoge also set the …

On October 12, 2019, Eliud Kipchoge became the world’s first person to run a marathon in less than two hours (Credit: Eliud Kipchoge/Facebook) Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge has been dominating the world marathon stage since winning the Chicago Marathon in 2014. In the years following, the elite runner has won every marathon he has participated in, …

Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 40 seconds, becoming the first person to break two hours for 26.2 miles in a special event in Vienna on Saturday morning. “It has taken 65 years for a human being to make history in sport after Roger Bannister,” Kipchoge said, noting the Brit who became …

VIENNA — On Saturday morning in Vienna, on a course specially chosen for speed, in an athletic spectacle of historic proportions, Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya ran 26.2 miles in a once-inconceivable time of 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds. In becoming the first person to cover the marathon distance in less than two hours, Kipchoge, …

How to run a marathon in less than two hours? Ineos 1:59 Challenge with Eliud Kipchoge Date: Saturday 12 October Time: TBC on Friday Coverage: Watch live on the BBC Sport website and on the Red Button Eliud Kipchoge says he hopes to show there are “no limits” by becoming the first person to break …