2023-10-08 14:39:49
What a tour de force from Kelvin Kiptum! In three marathons and at only 23 years old, the Kenyan has risen to the top of the hierarchy of the event, higher than the legend Eliud Kipchoge. Saturday, on the rolling course in Chicago and in ideal conditions (dry weather, clear sky, 7 degrees at the start), Kiptum took 26”09 off his elder’s world record. 2h00’35” once morest 2h01’09” for the 38-year-old double Olympic champion.
“When I saw that I was doing well, I thought I might go under 2 hours”
Kiptum set off quickly, around 2:01, in the company of a flock of hares. Accompanied by distance beginner Daniel Mateiko, he completed the semi in 60’48, a projection of 02h01’36” at the finish. The gap reached around thirty seconds at the 30th km, and it is there that Kiptum stepped on the accelerator, dropping Mateiko before the 35th km to pass in 1h40’22, or 2h00’59 at the finish. Sprinting alone in the streets of Windy City, Kiptum maintained his momentum to cross the line in 2:00:35.
“I’m so happy, I wasn’t prepared, even though I knew I might break the record for the event,” he told NBC Chicago. When I saw that I was doing well, I thought I might go under 2 hours, but unfortunately I didn’t succeed. I’m very happy, I didn’t have the world record in mind today. »
The Kenyan Benson Kipruto finally took 2nd place in 2h0’4″02, and the Belgian Bashir Abdi completed the podium in 2h04″32.
Sifan Hassan impresses
Among the women, the Dutch Sifan Hassan started very quickly below the world record of the Ethiopian Tigst Assefa established two weeks ago in Berlin in 2h11’53”, before giving in a little. She still won in 2h13.44, the second best performance in history.
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