Faith Nyasuguta
Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan double-olympic champion won the Tokyo marathon over the weekend.
The 37-year old running legend failed, however, to break his own world record of 2 hours, 1 minute and 39 seconds set in Berlin in 2018.
In 2021, Kipchoge also took the Olympic title at the Tokyo Olympics.
Kipchoge won the race in 2hr 2min 40sec, the fourth-fastest time in history, to give him victories in four of the world’s six major marathons.
Kipchoge has now run three of the four fastest marathons in history and has ambitions to win a record-breaking third consecutive Olympic gold at Paris 2024.
“I think I am happy to run a course record here in Tokyo,” said Kipchoge, who joined a select club of athletes last year when he defended his 2016 Rio Olympics gold at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games.
“I always say that I aim one thing at a time,” Kipchoge said.
Separately, 28-year old Kenyan Brigid Kosgei, who is also a world record holder, won in 2 hours, 16 minutes and 2 seconds in the women’s race.
She had finished second at the Tokyo Olympics behind her compatriot Perez Jepchirchir.
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