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Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge broke his personal world document in profitable the Berlin Marathon, clocking 2:01:09 to decrease the earlier document time of two:01:39 he set within the German capital in 2018.
Kipchoge, 37 and a two-time Olympic champion, earned his fifteenth win in 17 profession marathons to bolster his declare as the best runner in historical past over 26.2 miles.
His pacing was not ultimate. Kipchoge slowed over the second half, working 61:18 for the second half after going out in 59:51 for the primary 13.1 miles. He nonetheless received by 4:49 over Kenyan Mark Korir.
Ethiopian Tigist Assefa received the ladies’s race in 2:15:37, the third-fastest time in historical past. Solely Brigid Kosgei (2:14:14 in Chicago in 2019) and Paula Radcliffe (2:15:25 in London in 2003) have gone quicker.
American document holder Keira D’Amato, who entered as the highest seed, was sixth in 2:21:48.
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The final eight cases the lads’s marathon world document has been damaged, it has come on the pancake-flat roads of Berlin. It started in 2003, when Kenyan Paul Tergat turned the primary man to interrupt 2:05.
The world document was 2:02:57 — set by Kenyan Dennis Kimetto in 2014 — till Kipchoge broke it for the primary time 4 years in the past. The next yr, Kipchoge turned the primary individual to cowl 26.2 miles in underneath two hours, doing so in a non-record-eligible showcase fairly than a race.
Kipchoge’s focus going ahead is making an attempt to grow to be the primary runner to win three Olympic marathon titles in Paris in 2024. He additionally desires to win all six annual World Marathon Majors. He’s checked off 4 of them, solely lacking Boston (run in April) and New York Metropolis (run each November).
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