Kenya's marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach were killed in a traffic accident
‘s marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach were killed in a traffic accident in the Rift Valley on Sunday, cutting short the promising career of the only man to have run the endurance classic in less than two hours and one minute.surpass the mark of 2:01:09 run by compatriot Eliud Kipchoge in Berlin in 2022.
He made an explosive entry into the full 42.195km distance by running the then fourth fastest time on record to win the 2022 Valencia Marathon on debut. That race revealed his trademark approach to marathons, running with the pack for the first 30kms and then upping the pace and racing off alone for the remainder of the race.
He used the same tactics to win last April’s London Marathon in a course record of 2:01:25 and again in Chicago in October to take 34 seconds off Kipchoge’s world mark. That was to be his final race before his untimely death, which came only a week after World Athletics had ratified his world record. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
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