The first five kilometres in the 2022 Berlin Marathon were run in 14 minutes and 14 seconds, just four seconds slower than his time in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge. Kipchoge got off to a blistering start in both the 2022 Berlin Marathon and the Ineos 1:59 Challenge, however it is interesting to see just how close the splits of his marathon world record are to his sub-two-hour race.
READ MORE: Eliud Kipchoge breaks marathon world recordĢ022 Berlin Marathon vs. “We went too fast,” he said matter-of-factly of the first half of the race. However, a gradual decrease in speed over the final half marathon caused the two-time Olympic champion to just miss out on the two-hour mark while still setting a new world record in the process. “I thought my legs were running actually very fast, and I thought, oh let me just try to run two hours flat,” he said after beating second-placed Mark Korir to the line by over five full minutes. By the halfway point, his time of 59:51 in Berlin was close to a minute faster than the pace of his own previous official world record of 2:01:39 set on the same course in 2018.Īfter the race, Kipchoge admitted that he had been planning on racing the first half marathon in “60:50, 60:40” but changed his mind when he realised how fast he was running.
In the 2022 Berlin Marathon, Kipchoge had none of those aids at his disposal, yet still came close to once again breaking the two-hour mark in a race that saw him pass the 20km mark two seconds ahead of his time during the Ineos 1:59 Challenge. However, the conditions under which that race was run - with laser pace guides and 41 rotating human pacemakers - mean the 2019 attempt was never ratified as an official world record. Kipchoge has of course run faster, dipping under the legendary two-hour mark during the 2019 Ineos 1:59 Challenge, where he set the quickest time in history when he ended the race in 1:59:40. His average pace per 5km was clocked at a jaw-dropping 14:21.4. Running at an average speed of 21.02 km/h or 2 minutes 52 seconds per km, Kipchoge finished the race in 2:01:09, shaving a full 30 seconds off of his previous world record.
However, even for an athlete of his calibre, his performance at the 2022 Berlin Marathon on Sunday 25 September was nothing short of remarkable.
With 15 wins from 17 marathon attempts and two Olympic gold medals, the world has become used to witnessing Kenyan marathon king Eliud Kipchoge embody his catchphrase "Impossible is Nothing" over the 42.195 km marathon distance.
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