The lead pack’s first 5K split exactly replicated the 14:24 that opened his epic world record here a year ago. Right from the start today, Kipchoge was an invisible presence. A year before that, his fiancée suffered sudden death during a training run with him, a trauma he also managed eventually to put behind him. In the 2008 World Cross-Country Championships in Edinburgh, he lost a shoe in Scottish mud, turned back to dig it out, and clawed his way up through the field to win. His consolation-along with winning 40,000 Euros and adding 30,000 Euros for running under 2:03:30-is a place in history for running the world’s second fastest marathon, and, more important, for sealing his status as the greatest distance runner of all time, even ahead of Kipchoge and Haile Gebrselassie, across the whole range of track (three Olympic gold medals, five world championships, plus the two still-standing world records), cross-country (where he has won 11 world gold medals) and the marathon.īekele’s ability to recover from setback is well proven. Three years ago in the 2016 Berlin Marathon, Bekele missed the then world record by six seconds. And maybe even I will run the Olympic marathon-but I have not decided.” I knew that although my training was not perfect, I was going much better than last year,” he said. I wanted to show that I can still race well. Eliud Kipchoge Aims to Make History in Vienna.
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