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Kenya: Eliud Kipchoge Named Best Male Athlete of Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Nation, 25 October 2021
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge on Sunday won the Best Male Athlete accolade during the 2021 Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Awards held in Greece. Read more »
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Kenya: Eliud Kipchoge Nominated for the World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year
Capital FM, 21 October 2021
Kenya's great Eliud Kipchoge has been nominated for the 2021 World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year ahead of the Awards ceremony to be held in December. Read more »
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Kenya: Kipchoge's World Record Stays Intact as Bekele Fades Out in Berlin Marathon
Capital FM, 26 September 2021
The men's marathon world record that is owned by the great Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya stays intact after race favorite Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele failed to accomplish the mission at… Read more »
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Kenya: Eliud Kipchoge Launches Foundation
Nation, 8 September 2021
World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge has officially launched his own foundation referred to as 'the Eliud Kipchoge Foundation'. Read more »
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Kenya: Nike Brings Kipchoge to Eastlands
Nation, 6 September 2021
Elijah Mutua has had to survive on the occasional commission like many Kenyan graffiti artists who have struggled during these Covid-19 lockdown days. One person wants a mural in… Read more »
Kenyan Star Kipchoge Named Best Male Athlete of 2020 Olympics
Eliud Kipchoge has won the Best Male Athlete accolade during the 2021 Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Awards held in Greece.
Kipchoge delivered a masterclass in marathon running, breaking away at the 30-kilometre mark and never looking back, to retain his Olympic title in two hours, eight minutes and 38 seconds during the Tokyo Olympics in August 2021.
He became only the third man to defend the Olympic men's marathon title after Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila in 1960 and 1964, and East Germany's Waldemar Cierpinski in 1976 and 1980.
The victory at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was Kipchoge's 13th success in the 15 marathons he has raced in since 2013. He broke the world record in 2018 when he timed 2:01.39 in the Berlin Marathon.
On October 12, 2019, Kipchoge timed 1:59.40 at the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria. But the time did not count as a new marathon record since standard competition rules were not followed, writes Brian Yonga for The Nation.
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Eliud Kipchoge speaks after he was crowned the Sports personality of the Year at the Soya gala in Mombasa (file photo).
