Eliud Kipchoge Dashes Past 2-Hour Marathon Barrier In Assisted Event
Accompanied by pacesetters and an electric car, the Kenyan runner set a record Saturday that was long considered not humanly possible. He clocked in at 1:59:40 on crossing the finish line in Austria.
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.
"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 with NTV Kenya shortly after the race.
Bannister broke the 4-minute mile record at an athletic meet in Oxford in May 1954.
"No human is limited," Kipchoge said.
Kipchoge, the reigning Olympic marathon champion, was already a
