5:03 am | April 28, 2019 | Go to Source | Author:
Dominant Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge won his fourth London Marathon, running the second-fastest race of all time to take the title.
Kipchoge — who clocked a world record at the Berlin Marathon last year — powered home in a time of 2 hours, 2 minutes, 37 seconds, setting a London course record and adding to his 2015, 2016 and 2018 victories.
Ethiopians Mosinet Geremew and Mule Wasihun finished in second and third, while Britain’s multiple Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah was unable to keep up and finished a distant fifth.
In the women’s race, Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei held off the challenge of reigning champion and compatriot Vivian Cheruiyot to win in 2:18:20.
The runner-up in 2018, Kosgei went one better with an ultra-quick second half of the race that left Cheruiyot and three-time winner and favourite Mary Keitany trailing.
They fought bravely to stay in contention after Kosgei broke away around the 20-mile mark, but a second push from her was enough to add victory in London to her triumph in Chicago last year.
Cheruiyot finished in second with Roza Dereje of Ethiopia in third and Keitany in fifth.
American Dan Romanchuk won the men’s wheelchair race, with Switzerland’s Marcel Hug and Tomoki Suzuki of Japan in second and third.
The women’s wheelchair race was comfortably won by Manuela Schar of Switzerland.
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