New marathon world record 2hr 02 mins 57 sec.

[Ender]

Sibei fast. Under 2hr 3 mins....

 

 

 

 

https://sg.sports.yahoo.com/news/kenyas-dennis-kimetto-breaks-marathon-world-record-092838412--spt.html

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  AFP News/Tobias Schwarz - Kenya's Dennis Kimetto celebrates winning the 41st edition of the Berlin Marathon on September 28, 2014 in a new world record

Kenya's Dennis Kimetto smashed the world record in the Berlin Marathon on Sunday as he made history by becoming the first man to break the 2hr 03min barrier.

Dennis Kimetto of Kenya crosses the finish line in a new world record time of 2:02:57 to win the 41st Berlin marathon, …His lightning fast run of 2hr 02min 57sec was the second year running that the record had been broken in Berlin, the previous best being 26 seconds slower -- the 2:03.23 set over the same course last year by compatriot Wilson Kipsang.

The performance by the 30-year-old, a former farmer from western Kenya's high-altitude Rift Valley region, delivered a new benchmark in human endurance and cemented the Kenyans' total dominance of international road racing.

 

Dennis Kimetto of Kenya celebrates after winning the 41st Berlin marathon, September 28, 2014. Kimetto finished …"As the race went on, I saw I could do it, I'm delighted to have won," the modest Kimetto said after making history and nudging world leading times close to the two-hour barrier.

Kimetto, the pre-race favourite, was part of a seven-man breakaway group after 20km, which included fellow-Kenyans Emmanuel Mutai and Geoffrey Kamworor.

But Kimetto shook off Mutai four kilometres from home and crossed the line in record time over what is regarded as the world's fastest marathon course. Mutai finished second, also inside the previous record time with a run of 2:03.13 -- illustrating the depth of Kenya's talent.

 

Dennis Kimetto from Kenya holds a flag after winning the 41st Berlin Marathon in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. …Ethiopia's Abera Kuma a long way back in third in 2:05.56.

Kimetto hails from the town of Eldoret -- a part of the country that has produced some of the most dominant distance runners in history and is emerging as the world's training capital.

He was working as a farmer in an impoverished rural area before he took up running in his mid-20s, joining the training group of Geoffrey Mutai -- a Boston, Berlin and two-time New York marathon champion and the former holder of the unofficial world best, a 2:03.02 set in Boston.

His first major win came in Nairobi's Half Marathon in 2011, and he went on to finish second behind his training partner Mutai in the Berlin Marathon in 2012.

His 2:04.16 was the fastest marathon debut in history, and notable as he is one of a new breed of Kenyan road racers who do not have a track pedigree.

In 2013 he won the Tokyo Marathon, setting a course record of 2:06.50, and then the 2013 Chicago Marathon in a course record of 2:03.45 -- where he also beat Emmanuel Mutai into second place.

In the women's race, Tirfi Tsegaye led an Ethiopia 1-2, winning in 2:20.18 from Feyse Tadese (2:20.27) -- failing to break the 2:20 barrier and still a way off the 2:15.25 set by Britain's Paula Radcliffe in London in 2003.

Shalane Flanagan of the United Statges was third in 2:21.14, a personal best but short of the American record.

 

[Thaiyotakamli]

My ah ma can run faster than him

[Ender]

My ah ma can run faster than him

Good one.. Really respect the old hokkien peng's fitness,,

[inlinesix]

Previously world record was also in Berlin.

[Thaiyotakamli]

Good one.. Really respect the old hokkien peng's fitness,,

I talking about 20m not km hahaha

[Toothiewabbit]

My ah ma can run faster than him

my ah ma can run faster than your ah ma lo

[Watwheels]

I believe the ah mah probably floats to her destination from point A to B. That's why no living person can beat her.

[Kusje]

This was also my timing when I was younger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Half marathon.

[Icedbs]

sometimes when I see all these kenyans run in a group, I can't help but to think that they have already pre-plan who to win this race, who to win that race, such that everyone will have their turn to bring back some $$$.

 

Because so far, there isn't really a dominant kenyan in marathon, which is strange.

Edited September 28, 2014 by Icedbs

[Lala81]

sometimes when I see all these kenyans run in a group, I can't help but to think that they have already pre-plan who to win this race, who to win that race, such that everyone will have their turn to bring back some $$$.

 

Because so far, there isn't really a dominant kenyan in marathon, which is strange.

 

Lol.

Somehow i feel in endurance sports, this & ironman, very hard to be totally dominant.

 

But what u say is true. it does look that way. lol.

Edited September 28, 2014 by Lala81

[Shull]

48km in 2 hours is about 24km/h...

 

That's 10km/h faster than our IPPT gold running speed..

[Vid]

48km in 2 hours is about 24km/h...

 

That's 10km/h faster than our IPPT gold running speed..

 

:blink:

 

I cycle 24km/h for 2 hours also got problem

[Thaiyotakamli]

my ah ma can run faster than your ah ma lo

 

ur ah ma eat what siol hahaha

 

:blink:

 

I cycle 24km/h for 2 hours also got problem

 

i one hr faint liao

sometimes when I see all these kenyans run in a group, I can't help but to think that they have already pre-plan who to win this race, who to win that race, such that everyone will have their turn to bring back some $$$.

 

Because so far, there isn't really a dominant kenyan in marathon, which is strange.

 

I see group of Kenyans as Cheetah, they run very well

 

[13177]

He completed full marathon in about 2 hours ar? Sure bo? Anyway, seems like people from that country always super good in running marathon, thinking why?

[Ender]

sometimes when I see all these kenyans run in a group, I can't help but to think that they have already pre-plan who to win this race, who to win that race, such that everyone will have their turn to bring back some $$$.

 

Because so far, there isn't really a dominant kenyan in marathon, which is strange.

Those are the professional runners with their own group pacers. these pacers will one by one drop off, leaving the last stretch for the champion to meet his pb.

[Icedbs]

Those are the professional runners with their own group pacers. these pacers will one by one drop off, leaving the last stretch for the champion to meet his pb.

 

Yeah la, what I meant is that all these pacers always take turn such that the champion is always a different person among the group. These way everyone got chance to bring in the $$$.

 

I just guess guess only, but it really did look that way if you observe all the world marathon results. The winners are always that few runners among that kenyan group, but never a dominant person.

 

 

 

[Icedbs]

48km in 2 hours is about 24km/h...

 

That's 10km/h faster than our IPPT gold running speed..

 

Need to eat, live and sleep like a kenyan in Kenya to achieve such results.

 

 

[Porker]

Approximately 7 mins for per 2.4 km sustained over the entire marathon.