Eliud Kipchoge

**Eliud Kipchoge**  (born 5 November 1984) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He competes in the marathon and used to race the 5000 metres. Kipchoge won the marathon in the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. He had the world record marathon from 2018 to 2023. His record was broken by Kelvin Kiptum at the 2023 Chicago Marathon. Kipchoge has run 4 of the 10 fastest marathons in history.

On 12 October 2019, Kipchoge ran the marathon for the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna. In this race, he ran 1:59:40.2. He became the first person in history to run a marathon faster than two hours. The run did not count as a marathon record because he did not follow normal competition rules.

Kipchoge was given the Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart by President Uhuru Kenyatta on 20 October 2019. This award was for his sub-two-hour marathon. In 2019, he was called the 2019 BBC World Sport Star of the Year. In 2023 he was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award in the category "Sports".

## Personal bests

<small>All information is from World Athletics page.</small>

|Distance||Time||Date||Location||Venue||Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1500 m|3:33.20|31 May 2004|Hengelo, Netherlands|FBK Games|||||||
|Mile run|3:50.40|30 July 2004|London, United Kingdom|London Grand Prix|||||||
|3000 m|7:27.66|6 May 2011|Doha, Qatar|Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix|||||||
|Two miles|8:07.68|4 June 2005|Eugene, United States|Prefontaine Classic|||||||
|5000 m|12:46.53|2 July 2004|Rome, Italy|Golden Gala|||||||
|10,000 m|26:49.02|26 May 2007|Hengelo, Netherlands|FBK Games|||||||
|10 km (road race)|28:11|27 September 2009|Utrecht, Netherlands|Singelloop Utrecht|||||||
|26:54|31 December 2006|Madrid, Spain|San Silvestre Vallecana|(not legal)|||||||
|Half marathon|59:25|1 September 2012|Lille, France|Lille Half Marathon|||||||
|30 km|1:27:13|24 April 2016|London, United Kingdom|London Marathon|World best||||||
|Marathon|2:01:09|25 September 2022|Berlin, Germany|Berlin Marathon|||||||
|1:59:40|12 October 2019|Vienna, Austria|Ineos 1:59 Challenge|(not legal)|||||||

|Distance|Time (min)|Date|Location|Venue|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1500 m|3:36.25|18 February 2006|Birmingham, United Kingdom|National Indoor Arena|
|3000 m|7:29.37|5 February 2011|Stuttgart, Germany|Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle|
|Two miles|8:07.39|18 February 2012|Birmingham, United Kingdom|National Indoor Arena|
|5000 m|12:55.72|11 February 2011|Düsseldorf, Germany|Arena-Sportpark (in German)|

## Awards

- AIMS Best Marathon Runner Award – Men: 2015, 2016, 2017
- 2018 United Nations Kenya Person of the Year.
- 2018, 2019 IAAF Male athlete of the year award.
- 2019 BBC World Sport Star of the Year.
- Kipchoge was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by _New African_ magazine in 2019.
- 2021 Association of National Olympic Committees Best Male Athlete Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
- 2021 Abebe Bikila Award.
- 2023 Princess of Asturias Award.
- 2023 Honorary Doctorate from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

## Infobox (sportsperson)

- **image**: Eliud Kipchoge in Berlin - 2015 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Kipchoge at the 2015 Berlin Marathon
- **birth place**: Kapsisiywa, Rift Valley Province, Kenya
- **height**: 1.70 m
- **weight**: 52 kg
- **country**: Kenya
- **sport**: Sport of athletics, Athletics
- **event**: Marathon, 5000 m
- **team**: NN Running Team
- **coach**: Patrick Sang
- **worlds**: **2003 Paris**
 5000 m,
 **2005 Helsinki**
 5000 m, 4th
 **2007 Osaka**
 5000 m,
 **2009 Berlin**
 5000 m, 5th
 **2011 Daegu**
 5000 m, 7th
- **olympics**: **2004 Athens**
 5000 m,
 **2008 Beijing**
 5000 m,
 **2016 Rio de Janeiro**
 Marathon,
 **2020 Tokyo**
 Marathon,
- **highestranking**: 1st (2023)