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Eliud Kipchoge’s World Marathon Record Ratified By World Athletics

Sarah Wamaitha by Sarah Wamaitha
January 18, 2023
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Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge Crosses The Finish Line To win The 2022 Berlin Marathon

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge Crosses The Finish Line To win The 2022 Berlin Marathon [Photo/Courtesy]

The 2:01:09 marathon world record held by Eliud Kipchoge has been ratified.

Double Olympic champion Kipchoge won the Berlin Marathon last year, shaving off 30 seconds from the record he had previously set on September 16, 2018, in the same city.

The 38-year-old Kenyan went out hard, passing through 5km in 14:14 and 10km in 28:22. He maintained that pace through halfway, which was reached in 59:50. His pace started to drop slightly from then on, but he was still comfortably inside the 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 more than four minutes.

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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.

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Botswana’s Tebogo successfully defended his 100m title at the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22. He had broken the championship record in his heat with 10.00, then won his semifinal in 10.14 before going on to dominate the final in 9.91 (0.8m/s).

His winning time took 0.03 off the world U20 record he had set in Eugene on 15 July in the heats of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.

The Jamaican quartet of Serena Cole, Tina Clayton, Kerrica Hill, and Tia Clayton teamed up to take the title in 42.59, taking 0.35 off the previous record that the same team had achieved on 22 August 2021 at the previous World U20 Championships in Nairobi.

A similar quartet – but with Brianna Lyston on the third leg instead of Hill – had clocked a marginally quicker 42.58 at the Carifta Games earlier in 2022, but it could not be ratified as a record.

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

Read: Eliud Kipchoge Among World Athlete Of The Year Finalists

World Marathon holder Eliud Kipchoge, advanced to the finals for the Men’s World Athlete of the Year Award last year. Kipchoge won both the Berlin and Tokyo marathons, where he broke his own record in the Berlin marathon.

Other athletes on the list included Mondo Duplantis of Sweden, the world’s indoor and outdoor pole vault champion, Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco, the world’s 5000-meter champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway, and America’s Noah Lyles, the world’s 200-meter champion.

The three athletes represented their countries in different events including the World Athletics Championships in Oregon 22, the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade 22, one-day meeting circuits, and other events throughout the world, registering stellar performances.

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