🇰🇪 The world's fastest-ever marathon runner, EliudKipchoge , believes he ca go even faster. Kenyan runner set a new world record in Berlin last month. 👉🏾
Eliud Kipchoge is a double Olympic marathon champion, and is targeting a third straight triumph in Paris in 2024
Kipchoge ran the first half of late September's race in Berlin in 59 minutes and 51 seconds, prompting thoughts that he may become the first runner to break the two-hour mark in an official race.of a world record in the build-up, but admits lowering his time had been his stated aim in the German capital."I realise that we are fast enough to run under an hour in a half-marathon, which was really motivating for me.
He was won the past two Olympic titles - becoming just the third person to defend a marathon title when he"I trust that all things will carry me well up to 2024 to present myself at the starting line," he said. "I think we all thought that if anybody was in shape right now to take down that world record, it would be him," the 48-year-old Briton told the BBC World Service.
"If he gets that balance perfectly right between the first and second half, he can maybe take it down even further."
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