๐ฐ๐ช Sabastian Sawe, the first man to break two hours in a competitive marathon, will race the Berlin Marathon on September 27th.
Sawe ran 1:59:30 at last month's London Marathon, becoming the first man to break two hours under official race conditions.
He is the defending champion after he ran 2:02:16 last September in hot conditions. The Berlin course record is 2:01:19 by Eliud Kipchoge's 2022 then-world record.
Nine marathon world records have been set in Berlin since 1998, including five by Kenyan men in the last 15 years.
Marathon world records set in Berlin since 2000:
๐ฐ๐ช Paul Tergat โ 2:04:55 (2003)
๐ช๐น Haile Gebrselassie โ 2:04:26 (2007)
๐ช๐น Haile Gebrselassie โ 2:03:59 (2008)
๐ฐ๐ช Patrick Makau โ 2:03:38 (2011)
๐ฐ๐ช Wilson Kipsang โ 2:03:23 (2013)
๐ฐ๐ช Dennis Kimetto โ 2:02:57 (2014)
๐ฐ๐ช Eliud Kipchoge โ 2:01:39 (2018)
๐ฐ๐ช Eliud Kipchoge โ 2:01:09 (2022)
Now Sawe is coming...
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