Eliud Kipchoge is the Olympic champion and marathon world record holder 2:01:39. Kipchoge made a second attempt to run a sub 2 hour marathon in the Ineo's 1.59 Challenege in Vienna Austria He covered the 26.2 mile run in 1-59:40 the time will not be recognised as a WR and they knew that in this attemp He had a team of pacers that rotated in and out of the run and a pace car with a lazer projecting pacee on the ground. Kipchoges pacers included many Olympic and World Championship athletes including Matthew Centrowitz / Benard Lagat / Craig Engels / Paul Chelimo and the Ingerbrigtsen brothers as they ran on a looped coarse of 5.97 miles in Vienna Kipchoge had attempted Nikes Breaking 2 at Monza in 2017 just finishing short of his sub 2 hour goal by running 2.00:25 just 25 seconds short of 2 hours.... Kipchoges Splits 4:34 PER MILE 5k 14:10 10K 28:20 15K 42:34 20K 56:47 25K 1:10:59 30K 1:25:11 35K 1:39:23 40K 1:53:36 FINISH 1:59:40 |