The women’s elite race will be headlined by three former Boston winners: home favorite Des Linden, veteran Kenyan Edna Kiplagat and Ethiopia’s 2016 champion Atsede Bayisa. In 2019, he ran 1:59:40 in Vienna, Austria, as part of a challenge specifically engineered to optimize performance over the marathon distance. “It’s an uphill and tough course over 40 kilometers.”Īs well as owning the official world record, Kipchoge is also the first person to break the two-hour barrier in the marathon. 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.“This is the right time to train on the course which we have nicknamed ‘Boston’ here in Kenya,” he told Daily Nation. 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 under an hour.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 his sub-three minute kilometre split times in the early stages, along with the group of pacemakers.
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