Eliud Kipchoge is first man to run marathon under 2 hours

Category
Health
Place
Kenya
Date
2019
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"On 12 October 2019, Kipchoge ran the marathon distance on a special course in Vienna, Austria, achieving a time of 1:59:40 in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge.[6] The run did not count as a new record, as standard competition rules for pacing and fluids were not followed and it was not an open event. Regardless, Kipchoge remains the sole person in the history of mankind to have run a distance of a marathon race under two hours." [Wikipedia]
Brigid Jepscheschir Kosgei (born 20 February 1994) Kenyan marathon runner who won the 2018 and 2019 Chicago Marathons and the 2019 London Marathon. She came second at the 2017 Chicago Marathon and 2018 London Marathon.
She is a current marathon world record holder, who broke the 16-year-old women's marathon world record with 2:14:04 on 13 October 2019 at the Chicago Marathon." {Wikipedia]

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