Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge beats world mark at Berlin Marathon eNCA DStv403
At the halfway point the back-to-back Olympic champion in Rio and Tokyo looked set to become the first to officially run under the elusive two-hour mark.Kenyan Mark Korir finished second behind his countryman with a time of 2:05:58, while Ethiopian Tadu Abate came third with 2:06:28.
Kipchoge, who on Friday said his only goal was"to run a good race", burst out of the blocks, clearly aiming not only for a world record but to beat the two-hour mark. Adola was unable to maintain the pace and began to fall back after 18 kilometres, with both Kipchoge and Belihu reaching the half marathon mark in less than an hour.
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