Eliud Kipchoge delivered a dominating performance in the Tokyo Olympics men’s marathon, Kipchoge of Kenya, the world record holder in the marathon, is the first men’s repeat Olympic winner since Waldemar Cierpinski in 1976 and 1980. Kipchoge finished in 2 hours, eight minutes, 38 seconds. The 36-year-old Kipchoge, competing in his fourth Olympics, entered the race with three medals: a bronze in the 5,000 meters in Athens 2004, silver in the 5,000 in Beijing 2008 and gold in the marathon in Rio 2016. Kipchoge currently holds the unofficial sub two-hour marathon record which he ran during the INEOS 1:59 in Vienna in 2019.
Kenya’s very own Eliud Kipchoge broke his own world record in the Berlin Marathon which was held on 25th September, 2022 as he crossed the line in a time of 2:01:09 seconds, to beat by 30 seconds his previous best, set four years ago in the German capital
Kenya’s Jepchirchir wins Tokyo Olympics women’s marathon Gold. Jepchirchir finished with a time of 2:27:20, 16 seconds, making Kenya the first country ever to win both gold and silver in a single Women's Olympic marathon. She is the second Kenyan woman to win marathon Gold at the Olympics after Jemima Sumgong won gold in Rio 2016.
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