Kipchoge's juniors run the fastest marathon in the world

Kiptum's achievement is only 17 seconds short of the world record of 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds set by fellow legend Eliud Kipchoge at the Berlin Marathon on September 25, 2022.

Calculated in the five best marathon achievements of all time recognized by the World Athletics Federation (World Athletics), Kiptum and Kipchoge have two parameters each.

The third best achievement belongs to Kipchoge with 2 hours 1 minute 39 seconds at Berlin Marathon 2018. Next are the stats of 2 hours 1 minute 41 seconds of Ethiopian runner Kenenisa Bekele at Berlin Marathon 2019 and 2 hours 1 minute 53 seconds respectively. Kiptum itself at Valencia Marathon 2022.

Kipchoge is currently the only person in the world to run a sub2 marathon when reaching 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 event in Vienna, Austria in October 2019. However, this achievement was not recognized as a World Athletics world record because the runner born in 1984 competed with controlled ambient conditions, such as no opponent and a rotating team of pacers.

With 2 hours 1 minute 26 seconds achieved today, Kiptum also set a new London Marathon record, 1 minute 11 seconds faster than the old record - 2 hours 2 minutes 37 seconds - set by Kipchoge when winning this major. 2019.

Due to having just competed at the Boston Marathon on April 17, Kipchoge and many other superstars such as Evans Chebet, Gabriel Geay, Benson Kipruto .. were absent. And taking advantage of this opportunity, Kiptum turned the race at the London Marathon into his own stage. Despite unfavorable weather with rain making the track more and more wet, Kiptum in turn hit 10km when the clock hit 29 minutes and 12 seconds.

The 23-year-old Kenyan runner finished halfway in 61 minutes and 40 seconds, with seven other opponents trailing just 1 second slower. At km 30, this group was still chasing, but just over 500m more, Kiptum started to break up. It took him 13 minutes 49 seconds to complete the section from km 30 to 35, ie at a pace of 2:46 (2 minutes 46 seconds per km).

Kiptum then went straight to the finish line and trailed compatriot Geoffrey Kamworor to 2 minutes 58 seconds. World champion, Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola finished third with 2 hours 4 minutes 59 seconds, 3 minutes 34 seconds slower than Kiptum. British long-running legend Mo Farah, in his last run in a marathon, finished ninth with 2 hours 10 28 seconds.

In the women's race, Dutch runner Sifan Hassan finished first with 2 hours 18 minutes 33 seconds. Hassan is the 5,000 and 10,000m Olympic champion, but ran 42.195km for the first time when participating in this year's London Marathon. Later Hassan was followed by Ethiopian athletes Alemu Megertu with 4 seconds slower, and Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir with 5 seconds slower.

The London Marathon is an annual running race established in 1981, a member of the six most prestigious races on the planet, the World Marathon Majors, in addition to the ones in Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, Chicago and New York City. This year's tournament has about 48,000 athletes.