He's won 10 and finished second in the other. Kipchoge, 33, has competed in 11 marathons.
Marathon king Kipchoge is the reigning Olympic champion To put all this into some perspective, the average time external-link for non-elite male runners at the London Marathon is 3:48 - more than an hour and three-quarters slower than Kipchoge's record of 2:01:39. It is the largest single improvement on the world record in more than 50 years, since Australian Derek Clayton knocked it down by 2mins 37secs in 1967. On Sunday, Kimetto's compatriot Kipchoge broke the record by 78 seconds. Kimetto took 26 seconds off the previous record, which itself was an advance of 15 seconds - modest increments as the record nudges in the direction of the two-hour mark that many still doubt is humanly possible. The first time the marathon was run over its current distance of 26.2 miles was at the 1908 London Olympics, when it was won by American Johnny Hayes in a time of 2:55:18.Ī lot had changed in training and technology since then, and four years ago, Kenya's Dennis Kimetto became the first man to go under 2:03, clocking 2:02:57, also in Berlin. Most of us wouldn't last more than a minute or two new marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge is emphatically not most people.
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