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Kipchoge shows the time of his new marathon world record AFP

Athletics | berlin marathon

The Kenyan athlete wins for the fourth time in the German city and equals the triumphs achieved by the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie

25/09/2022

Updated at 2:22 p.m.

In a race for history, Eliud Kipchoge has beaten this Sunday in Berlin the marathon world record, which had been in his possession since 2018, setting a new mark of 2:01:09, half a minute less than the time he signed three years ago. A record with which the Kenyan athlete has come a little closer to the two-hour barrier and with which he has pocketed a succulent financial prize.

current Olympic champion, Kipchoge, who took almost five minutes from the second classified, was guaranteed a fixed $750,000 for his participation in the Berlin Marathon, an amount that will be increased with an extra prize of $250,000 for breaking the world record. A total of one million dollars.

The victory in Berlin is not the first that Kipchoge has achieved in this German city, in which he had already won in 2015, 2017 and 2018. With his victory in this Sunday’s marathon, the Kenyan equals Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassiewhich also won four times there.

Although Kipchoge, with a time of 59:51 seconds, fell from the hour in the middle of the test, the Kenyan has not achieved the other record that had been set in this Berlin Marathon: becoming the first man to break the barrier of the two hours at the end of the race.


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