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Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:01:09 marathon world record, along
with world U20 records set last year by 100m sprinter Letsile Tebogo and
Jamaica’s 4x100m team, have been ratified.
Double Olympic champion Kipchoge won the Berlin Marathon last
year, taking 30 seconds off the marathon world record he had set in the same
city on 16 September 2018.
The 38-year-old Kenyan went out hard, passing through 5km in
14:14 and 10km in 28:22 – not just comfortably inside world record pace, but
also well inside a projected two-hour finish.
He maintained that pace through half way, which was
reached in 59:50 – identical to his half-way split when he produced a
sub-two-hour run in an unofficial orchestrated race in Vienna three years ago.
His pace started to drop slightly from then on, but he was still comfortably
inside world record pace.
Ethiopia’s Andamlak Belihu had been level with Kipchoge up
until that point, but the Kenyan superstar then gradually pulled clear and was
out on his own. He passed through 30km in 1:25:40, then reached 35km in
1:40:10.
By the time he passed through 40km in 1:54:53, his lead had
grown to move than four minutes. Kipchoge went on to cross the line in 2:01:09,
making this the eighth consecutive men’s marathon world record to be set in
Berlin.
“I am overjoyed to have broken the world record,” said
Kipchoge. “I wanted to run the first half so fast. After 38km I knew I would be
capable of breaking the world record. The circumstances were great, and so was
the organization.”
Records Ratified
Men’s
world marathon record: 2:01:09 Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) Berlin, September 25,
2022
Men’s
world U20 100m record: 9.91 (0.8m/s) Letsile Tebogo (BOT) Cali, August 2, 2022
Women’s world U20 4x100m record: 42.59 Jamaica (Serena
Cole, Tina Clayton, Kerrica Hill, Tia Clayton) Cali, August 5, 2022