Kipchoge sets for Sydney Marathon - Egyptian Gazette

Kipchoge sets for Sydney Marathon - Egyptian Gazette

SYDNEY — Twice Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge will run the Sydney Marathon in August, he said. The 40-year-old Kenyan, who won back-to-back Olympic titles in 2016 and 2020, became in 2019 the first man to run a marathon in under two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna. That did not count as an official record, however, as standard competition rules were not in place. “I’m so excited,” Kipchoge said according to Reuters. “This is not…