A true hero today have run from kenya and the world is cheering him up for what he has accomplished.am sitiing with my phone rightnow thinking of how heroic moment have brought millions of heart together in a mini sec.
The basics
QUICK FACTS
| Intro | Kenyan long-distance runner | ||||
| Countries | Kenya | ||||
| Occupations | Marathon runner Long-distance runner Athletics competitor | ||||
| Gender | Male | ||||
| Birth | 5 November 1984 (Kenya, Kenya) | ||||
| Star sign |  Scorpio | ||||
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The details
BIOGRAPHY
Eliud Kipchoge (born 5 November 1984) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon and formerly the 5000 metres. He won the Olympic marathon in 2016 and is the current marathon world record holder with a time of 2:01:39 hours. Kipchoge's world record run at the 2018 Berlin Marathon broke the previous world record by 1 minute and 18 seconds. This is the greatest improvement in a marathon world record time since 1967.
Kipchoge won his first individual world championship title in 2003 by winning the junior race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships and setting a world junior record over 5000 m on the track. At the age of eighteen, he became the senior 5000 m world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics with a championships record, then followed with an Olympic bronze for Kenya in 2004 and a bronze at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships. A five-time World Championship 5000 m finalist, Kipchoge took silver medals at the 2007 World Championships, 2008 Summer Olympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games.
He switched to road running in 2012 and made the second-fastest ever half marathon debut with 59:25 minutes. On his marathon debut he won the 2013 Hamburg Marathon in a course record time. His first victory at a World Marathon Major came at the Chicago Marathon in 2014, and he went on to become series champion for 2016, 2017, and 2018. He won the London Marathon a record 4 times. Described as "the greatest marathoner of the modern era", Kipchoge has won 12 of the 13 marathons he has entered, his only loss being a second place behind Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich at the 2013 Berlin Marathon, where Kipsang broke the world record. In October 2019, Kipchoge is scheduled to make another attempt at a sub-two-hour marathon on a special course in Vienna.
Early life and personal life
Kipchoge was born on 5 November 1984 in Kapsisiywa, Nandi District of Kenya. Kipchoge graduated from Kaptel Secondary School in 1999 but did not run seriously then. He ran two miles to school on a daily basis. Kipchoge was raised by a single mother (a teacher), and only knew his father from pictures. He is the youngest of four children. He met his trainer Patrick Sang (a former Olympic medalist in the steeplechase) in 2001 at the age of 16.
Kipchoge lives with his wife and three children in Eldoret, Kenya.
Career
2002–2004
In 2002, he won at the Kenyan trials for the 2002 IAAF World Cross CountryChampionships junior race. At the World Cross Country Championships, held in Dublin, Kipchoge finished fifth in the individual race and was part of the Kenyan junior team that won gold. Kipchoge also won the 5000 metres race at the Kenyan trial for the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but fell ill and missed the championships. At the 2003 IAAF World Cross CountryChampionships he won the junior race.
He set a world junior record in the 5000 m at the 2003 Bislett Games, running a time of 12:52.61 minutes. This stood as the world and African junior record until 2012, when it was improved to 12:47.53 minutes by Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia.
In July he participated in the Golden League 2004 Roma Meeting. In the 5000 m event, he dipped first among the starters with 12:46.53, which made him the sixth-fastest ever in the event.
Kipchoge won a gold medal at the 5000 m final at the 2003 World Championships, outsprinting both future world record holder Kenenisa Bekele and runner-up Hicham El Guerrouj (the world record holder in the 1500 metres and mile) by four hundredths of a second (12:52.79 vs. 12:52.83).
World Championship and Olympic medals
Kipchoge on third position (from right) during the 5000m heat in the 2007 IAAF World Championship in Osaka. After the final he left with a silver medal.
"...There was little doubt that Kipchoge had laid claim to be called the greatest marathon runner of all time, ..."
The IAAF on 22 Aug, 2016 referring to his Olympic marathon gold.'
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