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The sub-2 hour marathon had "afflicted the marathon since about 2011" [2] at which time the world record was 2:03:59 held by the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.Gebrselassie stated in 2011 that the 2 hour mark could be broken in 20 to 25 years.
To break the two-hour barrier, a pace of 2:50 min/km (4:34.5 per mile) was required. In order to achieve this, the racers followed behind a team of six pacers in a triangle formation who were themselves following a pace vehicle displaying a large clock of the race time and projecting green lasers onto the ground to indicate where the lead pacer ...
In May 2019, a few days after his London Marathon win, Kipchoge announced another take on the sub-two-hour marathon, named the Ineos 1:59 Challenge. On 12 October 2019 in Vienna's Prater park, he ran 4.4 laps of the Hauptallee in 1:59:40, becoming the first person in recorded history to break the two-hour barrier over a marathon distance. [89 ...
Marathon world records are tumbling in the men's and women's races, though the main topic of conversation is not the athletes, but the role played by 'super-shoes'.
The 5-foot-tall sixth-grader placed second among all girls and women at the Ventura Marathon in February when she ran the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours 58 minutes, averaging less than 7 minutes per ...
For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...
He recorded a second consecutive win and sub-2:06 run at the 2011 Amsterdam Marathon, finishing just outside the course record with his time of 2:05:53 hours. [40] His first major race of 2012 came at the Boston Marathon, where he came in fifth place. [41] He was third at the lower profile Bogotá Half Marathon in July. [42]
Since the Vaporfly’s debut in 2016, runners have shattered world records, including achieving a sub-two-hour marathon. All wore various iterations of the supershoe.