Equilibrium is restored. Eliud Kipchoge, a man who can already lay claim to being the greatest male marathon runner in history underlined that status by finally adding the kudos of world record holder to his curriculum vitae. In the latest (and greatest?) of a string of world records on the race tra...
He is unbeaten since 2014 and during this time has won eight marathons including the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. Kipchoge has also covered the marathon distance of 42.195 kilometres in 2:00:25 in a sponsored test run in Monza in May, 2017, two and a half minutes faster than any human being had pre...
Time flies! The 45th Berlin Marathon will be run this Sunday. And it’s already been 10 years since uber-great Haile Gebrselassie became the man who took the World Record under 2:04 . It was the 26th WR of the Ethiopian’s career and T&FN‘s Sean “Professor Marathon” Hartnett was on hand to chronic...
Two outstanding athletes from Kenya face each other in the 45th edition of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday when Eliud Kipchoge and Wilson Kipsang meet for the third round of their rivalry in the fastest marathon in the world. Kipchoge’s best of 2:03:05 is only eight seconds slower than the current...
The strongest women’s field in the history of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON will line up for the 45th edition on Sunday, including perhaps the greatest female long distance runner of all time, Tirunesh Dibaba. Among the Ethiopian’s rivals will be last year’s winner, Kenya’s Gladys Cherono and her compatri...
