[Berlin Jiji]The Berlin Marathon was held on the Berlin city course on the 25th, and Eliud Kipchoge (37) = Kenya, who won the Tokyo Olympics for the second time in a row, set a new world record of 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds for 4 years, won the championship for the first time in four years. He broke the previous world record he set at the 2018 event by 30 seconds.
Kenya Sonoda (JR East) took 7th place, the highest time in Japan with a time of 2:07:14. Tatsuya Maruyama (Toyota Motor) was eighth with a time of 2:07:50.
women areRika Kaseda(Daihatsu) came 7th, top of the Japanese team, with a time of 2:21:55, the 10th fastest time in Japanese history. Tokyo Olympic RepresentativeAyuko Suzuki(Japan Post Group) 7 seconds behind in 8th place, and Sayaka Sato (Sekisui Chemical) in 9th. Tigist Asefa (Ethiopia) won in 2 hours 15 minutes 37 seconds, the third fastest time in the world.
◇ Biography of Kipchoge
Eliud Kipchoge(Kenya) In the men’s marathon at the Olympic Games, he won gold medals in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021. In the 5,000 meters, he won bronze at the 2004 Athens Games and silver at the 2008 Beijing Games. He won the Berlin Marathon in 2015, 2017 and 2018. He won London four times, and in March this year in Tokyo he won the fastest time in Japan with a time of 2:02:40. 15 wins in 17 marathons. In 2019, he ran 1:59:40 in an unofficial race. 37 years old.
