Eliud Kipchoge is definitely one of many biggest marathon runners in historical past. Kipchoge has turn into the face of marathon working over the previous decade, successful greater than 75 per cent of his profession races, together with two Olympic golds and 11 Abbott World Marathon Majors, to not point out holding the marathon world file from 2018 to 2023. Now, he’s introduced he’s set to deal with a shorter distance, the 10K.
On Dec. 1, Kipchoge will line up for the Thailand 10K on the 2024 Bangkok Marathon as a part of a brand new partnership bewteen the race and the NN Working Crew. This will probably be Kipchoge’s first non-marathon race for the reason that 2016 Delhi Half Marathon, the place he clocked 59 minutes and 44 seconds to win.
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Kipchoge, who celebrated his fortieth birthday this week, boasts a 10K private better of 26:54, set on the Madrid 10K in 2006. The final time he raced this distance was in 2014, on the prestigious Giro di Castelbuono in Italy. Nonetheless, in his current marathon performances, the second-fastest marathoner in historical past has proven indicators that he’s human, ending tenth on the 2024 Tokyo Marathon (in 2:06:50) and a DNF on the Paris Olympic marathon. Hip ache in Paris reportedly prevented the Kenyan star from claiming a 3rd consecutive Olympic marathon title.
Along with the Thailand 10K occasion, Kipchoge will tour southeast Asia with the NN Working Crew, aiming to advertise distance working within the area. “There’s super potential within the Asian working world, and I’m blissful to begin working along with Wonderful Thailand to advertise working within the Asian area,” Kipchoge mentioned in a press launch. “I’ve all the time mentioned that I need to make this world a working world, as a result of a working world is a cheerful world, a working world is a wholesome world, and a working world is a peaceable world.”
Kipchoge has additionally confirmed he isn’t completed with the marathon fairly but. In an October interview with Runners World, he reiterated his aspiration to finish all seven Abbott World Marathon Majors earlier than retiring. To this point, he has run 5, with solely New York and the newly added Sydney Marathon remaining on his bucket listing.
