34-year-old Kenyan Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge runs world's first sub-2 hour marathon

[Syriel]

Real life Flash here. I can't even imagine keeping that pace for 2 hours. Mad props.

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 the first man to break 4 minutes for a mile in 1954. "I can tell people that no human is limited. I expect more people all over the world to run under two hours after today."

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He pointed to both sides of the crowd, slapped his chest twice as he crossed under the finish banner. He found the arms of his wife, Grace, watching him finish a marathon in person for the first time, and children. Then he moved onto his career-long coach, 1992 Olympic 3000m steeplechase silver medalist Patrick Sang.

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Pacers included a Who's Who of distance runners, from Olympic 1500m champion Matthew Centrowitz to five-time Olympian Bernard Lagat, who is 44 years old.

Kipchoge ran 2:00:25 in his previous sub-two attempt on a Formula One track in Monza, Italy. He holds the world record of 2:01:39, set at the 2018 Berlin Marathon.

"Berlin is running and breaking a world record," Kipchoge said before the event. "Vienna is running and making history in this world, like the first man to go the moon."

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NBCSN airs an exclusive replay of the Ineos 1:59 Challenge on Sunday from 3-5:30 p.m. ET and Monday at 2:30 p.m.

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Source:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mo...59-marathon-first-to-break-2-hours/ar-AAIFQjT

 

[Dan]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eliud-kipchoge-runs-first-ever-sub-2-hour-marathon.146586/

 

[Syriel]

Well then.