{"id":20777,"date":"2019-10-12T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T19:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/eliud-kipchoge-dashes-past-2-hour-marathon-barrier-in-assisted-event\/"},"modified":"2019-10-12T11:14:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T19:14:24","slug":"eliud-kipchoge-dashes-past-2-hour-marathon-barrier-in-assisted-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/eliud-kipchoge-dashes-past-2-hour-marathon-barrier-in-assisted-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliud Kipchoge Dashes Past 2-Hour Marathon Barrier In Assisted Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three-time Olympic medalist Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours, clocking in at 1:59:40 as he passed the finish line Saturday morning in Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n

“It has taken 65 years for a human being to make history in sport, after Roger Bannister made history in 1954,” Kipchoge, who’s Kenyan, said in an interview<\/a> with NTV Kenya shortly after the race. <\/p>\n

Bannister broke the 4-minute mile record at an athletic meet in Oxford in May 1954. <\/p>\n

“No human is limited,” Kipchoge said. <\/p>\n

Kipchoge, the reigning Olympic marathon champion, was already a leading figure in the race to break the 2-hour mark, which the race’s organizer, chemicals company Ineos, called “the last great barrier of modern athletics.”<\/p>\n

The ability of a human to run that fast wasn’t even considered possible until the 1990s In 1991, Dr. Michael Joyner published a paper<\/a> that estimated the fastest time for a human to run a marathon at 1:57:58. <\/p>\n

“It’s validating to me, but Mr. Kipchoge did all the running,” Joyner said in a phone interview with NPR. <\/p>\n