Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge breaks his own record at the Berlin Marathon




Eliud Kipchoge, the world’s fastest marathon runner

2 hours 1 minute and 9 seconds. That’s how long it took Eliud Kipchoge to complete the 42.195 km Berlin Marathon. He broke the world record, which he already held. In 2018, also in Berlin, the Kenyan had set the record in 2 hours, 1 minute and 39 seconds. 
An extraordinary performance that seems almost inhuman on closer analysis. To realise how fast the athlete ran, you have to imagine the course divvied up into 100 m sections. To achieve Eliud Kipchoge’s time, you would have to run 100 m in just 17 seconds, and then keep on doing so 420 times in a row without stopping.
The two-time Olympic champion remains modest about his historic performance, however. “Berlin is a place where everyone has a chance to push their limits. I have always said that I don’t believe in limits […], I always say that no human is limited,” he said at the press conference. 

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