Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Sawe smashes two-hour mark to 'move goalposts for marathon running'
Many marathon world records have been set in Chicago, Berlin, and London
due to their fast, flat routes. On April 26 at the London Marathon, Kenyan
runner Sabastian Sawe set a new men's marathon world record of 1:59:30, the first
human to run a sub-two-hour marathon in official race conditions. Only 11
seconds later, another runner from Ethiopia, Kejelcha, reached the goal at
1:59:41 in his first full marathon race. Also set at the same event was the Women's
Only Record of 2:15:41 by an Ethiopian
runner, Assefa. It was quite amazing that three runners broke the world record
at a single marathon event. Interestingly, all three runners were wearing recently
released new adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 shoes, the lightest shoe in the
brand’s Adizero range, weighing less than 100 grams. The runners, conditions,
shoes, and competition all might have contributed to the three world records at
the recent marathon event.
FYI, the first world record of an international marathon race was
2:58:50 at the 1896 Athens Olympic Games. It took 130 years to shave one hour
off the time to run 42.195 km.
Read the article and learn about this historic marathon event.
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