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The former record holder, Kimetto, was one of the first to share his congratulations on Twitter. It was the biggest improvement on the marathon record since Derek Clayton knocked two minutes, 23 seconds off the mark in 1967. I had to focus on the work I had put in in Kenya and that is what helped push me,” Kipchoge said after he had leaped into his coach Patrick Sang’s arms at the finishing line. READ: Kipchoge comes close to 2-hour marathon READ: The race for a sub-two-hour marathon FlWmIi3mLk- Jon Mulkeen September 16, 2018

With some hard training, I could maybe make it a full 800m. If you were to run alongside Kipchoge, how long would you last? This is what 2:01:39 pace translates to for various distances. Embodying the loneliness of a long-distance runner, Kipchoge ran at an eye-watering pace of four minutes and 37 seconds per mile. He ran the first half of the race in one hour, one minute and six seconds but went 30 seconds quicker in the second half. But where most athletes would struggle, Kipchoge continued to defy the odds and instead of falling off the pace, he actually sped up.

Shortly after the halfway mark, all three pacemakers dropped out, leaving Kipchoge to run the final 10 miles alone. The Kenyan was led out from the start by three pacemakers and he clocked the first 10 kilometers in world record pace. Kipchoge’s split times left many viewers scratching their heads as they tried to work out just how fast the race was won. Eliud Kipchoge wins the Berlin Marathon to set a new world record.