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Won two consecutive Olympic marathon titles.
He won in Rio and successfully defended the title in Sapporo.
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3 public itemsEliud Kipchoge
Distance runner
PHOTO: Denis Barthel / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Turned disciplined training and race craft into two Olympic marathon titles and the first sub-two-hour marathon-distance run.
What Eliud got done.
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Became the first person to cover a marathon distance in under two hours.
Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in a controlled Vienna exhibition; the performance was not eligible as an official world record.
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Won the world 5,000-metre title at age 18.
Kipchoge defeated established champions before later moving from track racing to the marathon.