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Through the 24th mile, only Geremew managed to stay with him. Kipchoge ran the next two miles in 4:26 and 4:30 to win the race 2:02:37, while Geremew finished second in 2:02:55. This was Kipchoge's second fastest time behind his Berlin world record and also the second fastest marathon in history as well as his fourth London Marathon victory. [18]
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 ...
Kipchoge set the world record of 2 hours, 1 minute, 9 seconds in Berlin in 2019 and also broke 2 The post Boston Marathon poses new challenge for Kipchoge: slow down appeared first on TheGrio.
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In 2019, Eliud Kipchoge attempted to perform even splitting in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge, in which he attempted to run a marathon distance in under two hours. In order to achieve this time, each 5 km split would need to be completed in 14 minutes 13 seconds, producing a time of 1 hour 59 minutes 59.5 seconds.
A third gold in Paris would cement Kipchoge’s status as a long-distance legend. CNN joins him at his Kenya training camp, where the hard yards are run. Eliud Kipchoge: The two-hour marathon man ...
The world record set during this run was the 8th world record in 20 years in the men's marathon at the Berlin marathon. [3] During the run, Kipchoge used Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% shoes. [13] [14] The pace during the run averaged to 2:53/km (4:38/mile). The second half of the race in 1:00:33, and the last 10 km was covered in 28:33. [15] [16]