CAPE TOWN - Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge won the Berlin Marathon on Sunday. The Kenyan runner clocked 2:03:32 in wet conditions, well short of the 2:02:57 world record set by Dennis Kimetto in 2014. Earlier this year, Kipchoge came close to a sub-two-hour marathon during the Nike Breaking2 project, missing the mark by 24 seconds at the Monza motor racing circuit. His time, though, is not an official world record as the event did not satisfy certain IAAF criteria. Kipsang then dropped out of the race at 30km, leaving just Kipchoge and Ethiopian marathon debutant Guye Adola at the front.

Source: Ethiopian News September 24, 2017 09:30 UTC