KINGS OF MARATHONS
Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum broke the marathon world record to win the Chicago Marathon in a time of 2 hours and 35 seconds, nearly breaking the two-hour barrier.
He beat the previous record held by his compatriot 38-year-old Eliud Kipchoge as the world’s best marathoner. Kipchoge, who held that distinction for most of the last decade, bids next year to become the first person to win three Olympic marathons at the Paris Olympics.
Kipchoge is the only person known to have run 26.2 miles in under two hours, in 2019, he ran 1:59:40.2 in Vienna, Austria.
