Kenya: Meet Tycoon Who Sponsored Kipchoge 1 - 59 Marathon Bid

13 October 2019

One word you are most likely to find in media reports about Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the British tycoon whose company sponsored Eliud Kipchoge's Ineos 1:59 Challenge, is "reclusive".

This is because Ratcliffe is such a publicity-shy man that even the notoriously aggressive journalists from his home country find it hard to track him down for interviews.

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