Kipchoge will receive around Ksh 3 million for winning the competition, Ksh 6.8 million for breaking the world mark, and Ksh 4.1 million for the time bonus, according to hdsports. But the fact is ignoring these rules does confer an advantage.Eliud Kipchoge, a two-time Olympic marathon winner, shattered the record on Sunday, September 25, when he ran the Berlin Marathon in a time of 2:01:09.Īs he set the pace from the beginning of the race to finally win the gold medal, the Kenyan athlete outperformed his competitors and demonstrated dominance.

You may think this is overreaching by officials. Each of these rules was set aside for the “historic” attempt in 2019. The International Association of Athletics Federation’s rules stipulate the event must be a sanctioned race, pacers can’t substitute in and out of the event at whim, and nutrition must be taken from stationary tables (not bikes riding next to the runner as Kipchoge did in Vienna). But as Kipchoge himself knew, an asterisk forever sits next to this time. The clock stopped to euphoric crowds and a seemingly transcendental Kipchoge he’d smashed the sub-2 barrier with a time of 1h 59m and 40s. Running 4.4 laps around Vienna’s Prater Hauptallee, behind a phalanx of elite distance runners set out in exquisite formation, Kipchoge kept up an alarming pace of 2m and 52s per kilometre for 42.195km. Is Kipchoge well on the way to breaking the elusive sub-2 hour marathon barrier?īack in October, 2019, Kipchoge took part in a commercial enterprise set up entirely to see him make history. It was 30s faster than his previous record (also set in Berlin, in 2018) and the second-largest lowering of the world record since 2003 (Kipchoge himself has the largest margin).

Kipchoge’s new world record of 2h, 1m and 9s was an astonishing achievement, even by his own lofty standards. But for Eliud Kipchoge, the greatest men’s marathoner of all time, his life’s work has come down to a cruel clutch of seconds.Īfter surpassing his own world record in Berlin on Sunday, 69 seconds is all that separates him from breaking the historic “sub-2” barrier – that is, completing a full marathon (42.195 kilometres) in under two hours. In that time, you could reheat a cuppa in the microwave or get halfway through brushing your teeth.

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