Kelvin Kiptum sets new marathon world record

Kelvin Kiptum set a new world record as he ran the Chicago marathon in 2hr 0min 35sec.

The 23-year-old was behind the world record pace on the halfway mark, 25km mark and the 30km mark but picked up the pace at the end to make history. He is self-coached and has only run two marathons previously.

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[kamauian]

May he rest in eternal peace. We will miss you Kiptum

[guymichelasseke]

R.I.P & LONG LIVE KELVIN KIPTUM 🏃🏿‍♂️❤️‍🩹🥀🕊🕯

[Fredywenz]

REST IN PEACE KELVIN KIPTUM YOU’ll BE MISSED🙏🏼🙏🏼

[beginneronabudget]

To an Athlete Dying Young
BY A. E. HOUSMAN

The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears.

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.

[JamesOBrien-hmge]

Maybe soon we will see kiptum against Kipchoge. It will be the Ali v Frazier of running.

[edwingng]

HOW DOES HE STILL RUN DOING HIS VICTORY ROUND????
Just

[lynneleeluckdowsing]

A perfectly fit and healthy body. While millions of others, labouring under weight and poisons, still carry the spark of life. How come?how? Perhaps, since we have created nothing, we simply have no right to expect or demand the perpetuity of any "creation" .. Like Lear in the storm, Mind has to be reined in to avoid to avoid a collision with madness.

[priyanshff]

Kipochege has 1 hrs 59 min and 40 sec marathon record and he will be remember for every one no matter who come second❤❤❤❤❤