The 41 pacemakers are among the best athletes in the whole world … to all of them I want to say thank you, thank you for doing the job. No human is limited, and I’m expecting more people to do it after today. After Roger Bannister it took another 65 years … I’m happy to be the man to run under two hours. It has taken 65 years for a human to make history in sport. However the feat will remain impressive nonetheless. With these assisted conditions, and the fact the run was not part of an open event, means Kipchoge’s achievement will not count as an official world record. Each kilometre was consistently ran in around 2:50, and Kipchoge never went slower than 2:52 for any. Kipchoge accomplished the sub2 time by completing four laps of a 9.4km circuit around the Prater, a park in the centre of the Austrian capital. The World record holder and Olympic champion was assisted by 41 in-and-out pacemakers (seven at a time) and laser support from a car in front, and was cheered on by thousands of fans from all over the world. I expect more people all over the world to run under two hours after today.Kipchoge made history in Vienna by running the first-ever sub2 marathon in a time of 1hr 59min 40sec. I am the happiest man in the world to be the first human to run under two hours and I can tell people that no human is limited. Now it is 65 years later, I have tried and I got it. It took another 63 years, I tried and I did not get it. “It has taken 65 years for a human being to make history in the sport after Roger Bannister made history in 1954. Photo: Thomas Lovelock for The INEOS 1:59 Challenge The INEOS 1:59 Challenge, Vienna, Austria.

Eliud Kipchoge celebrates as he crosses finish line and makes history to become the first human being to run a marathon in under 2 hours. Just like Roger Bannister who became the first man to break the four-minute mile barrier against all odds and in defiance of the experts who thought it impossible so to has Eliud Kipchoge become the first human being to break the two-hour marathon barrier coming in at 1:59:40 in Vienna today.

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