Eliud Kipchoge is a long-distance runner from Kenya. In the first decade of this century, he used to compete in the 5000 m event. He had decent success in it, winning bronze at 2004 Athens Olympics, silver in 2008 Beijing Olympics, apart from his gold and silver at the 2003 and 2007 World Championships.
In 2012, he switched to road running and took to the marathons. Since then, he has won 12 of the 13 marathons that he has competed in, coming second to Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang when he set the world record at the 2013 Berlin marathon.
Kipchoge won the 2016 Rio Olympics gold in the marathon and made the world record his own when he won the 2018 Berlin marathon in a time of 2 hours, 1 minute and 39 seconds.
He has also been involved in experimental runs over marathon distances without standard competition rules. While he clocked 2:00:25 at Monza in 2017 during one such attempt, he broke the mythical two-hour barrier in 2019, when he ran the distance in 1:59:40 at Vienna.
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