{"id":632623,"date":"2026-04-26T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632623\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:47:10","slug":"sabastian-sawe-becomes-first-man-to-run-a-marathon-in-under-two-hours-with-victory-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632623\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabastian Sawe becomes first man to run a marathon in under two hours with victory in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe has became the first man to run a marathon in under two hours, winning the London Marathon with a time of one hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Sawe, who has never lost a marathon, on Sunday shattered the world record previously held by the late Kelvin Kiptum, who set a time of 2:00:35 at the Chicago Marathon in October 2023.<\/p>\n

Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia stayed on Sawe’s heels over much of the 42.195-kilometre course before fading down the final stretch to take second in his marathon debut with 1:59.41, while Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda took the bronze in 2:02.28.<\/p>\n

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Sawe made history by breaking the two-hour barrier in London. (Getty Images: Alex Davidson)<\/p>\n

Kiptum died in a car crash in 2024 in Kenya when he was just 24 years old.<\/p>\n

Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia broke her own women’s only world record en route to victory.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old pulled away from Kenyans Hellen Obiri and Joyciline Jepkosgei down the home stretch to cross the finish line in 2:15.4, beating the record of 2:15.50 she set last year in London.<\/p>\n

Obiri was second in 2:15.53, while Jepkosgei took the bronze in 2:15.55.<\/p>\n

Switzerland’s Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner won the men’s and women’s wheelchair events.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hug won for the sixth consecutive year and eighth overall, while Debrunner outsprinted American Tatyana McFadden to the finish for her third win in a row in London.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe has became the first man to run a marathon in under two hours, winning the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5844,64,63,293383,2434,306330,85,306329,24862,306331],"class_list":{"0":"post-632623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-abc-sport","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-london-marathon","12":"tag-running","13":"tag-sabastian-sawe","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-under-two-hours","16":"tag-world-record","17":"tag-yomif-kejelcha"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}