Busting the two-hour barrier, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge made history on Saturday in Vienna.
According to NDTV, the marathon runner became the first in the world to complete the competition in under 2 hours.
With an unofficial time of 1 hour 59 minutes and 40.2 seconds, Kipchoge, who is 34-years-old, has broken a mythical barrier.
The Olympic champion already holds the men’s world record for the distance with a time of 2 hours and 1 minute, which he set in the flat Berlin marathon, in 2018.
Elated on making history, Kipchoge said:
I am the first man – I want to inspire many people, that no human is limited.
HISTORY! pic.twitter.com/qjLfofhL5s
— Eliud Kipchoge (@EliudKipchoge) October 12, 2019
Despite making history and grabbing eyeballs all across the globe, the International Association of Athletics Federations will not validate the time as a world record.
The reason – the track in Vienna was evened out, fitted with pacemakers and had banked corners to avoid any injury.
Kipchoge almost broke the 2-hour barrier in May, 2017 when he clocked 2 hour 00 minutes and 25 seconds while running on the Monza National Autodrome racing circuit in Italy.
