{"id":10749,"date":"2019-10-12T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10749"},"modified":"2019-10-12T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:15:34","slug":"kenyas-eliud-kipchoge-breaks-two-hour-marathon-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10749","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eliud Kipchoge has made history as he becomes the first athlete to run a marathon in less than two hours, \u00a0beating the mark by 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan, 34, covered the 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It will not be recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition and he used a team of rotating pacemakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Kipchoge was supported by 36 pacemakers who accompanied him in alternating groups, one of the reasons the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will not ratify the time as a world record.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing he was about to make history on the home straight, the pacemakers dropped back to let Kipchoge sprint over the line alone, roared on by a large crowd in the Austrian capital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-also-read article-embed-tb-block article-embedded-card \">\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">However, its president Sebastian Coe welcomed the record attempt.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The Olympic champion &#8211; who holds the\u00a0 official marathon world record of 2:01:39, set in Berlin, Germany in 2018 &#8211; missed out by 25 seconds in a previous attempt at the Italian Grand Prix circuit at Monza in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliud Kipchoge has made history as he becomes the first athlete to run a marathon in less than two hours, \u00a0beating the mark by 20 seconds. The Kenyan, 34, covered the 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria on Saturday. It will not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,31,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10753,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749\/revisions\/10753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}