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Monday, 27 April 2026

FROM HARVARD LABS TO KIPCHOGE'S HOME

Gabby Thomas’s path to Nyayo Stadium's track is anything but typical. While rivals turned pro at 20, she was at Harvard earning a degree in neurobiology and global health, graduating in 2019 after smashing the NCAA 200m record with 22.38.

Since then, the medals piled up: Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze in the 200m and 4x100m silver. Budapest 2023 World Championship silver in the 200m and 4x100m gold. Then Paris 2024, where she completed the triple: Olympic gold in the 200m, 4x100m, and 4x400m.

All while finishing a master’s in public health at UT Austin and championing STEM access. She analyzes races like research problems. Nairobi was her latest experiment, and the hypothesis held: speed travels.

The Kip Keino Classic honors Kenya’s greatest miler but today it crowned a sprinter. The 100m/200m double is the sport’s toughest ask: pure power, then lactic acid management, with minimal recovery. To do it with 11.01 and 21.89 at altitude puts Thomas in elite company.

Her 11.01 is a one of her best performances and a message to the 100m field. Her 21.89 ties her season’s best and proves Nairobi’s altitude is no barrier when your turnover is that clean.

Thomas laughed post-race, draped in both the US and Kenyan flags fans handed her: “I came here hoping to deliver my best and I did exactly that', she said.

With World Championships on the horizon, Gabby Thomas just used Nyayo Stadium as a warning shot. The neuroscience grad is still running experiments in human potential. Result of today’s trial: double gold.

- Wambui Muigai

Friday, 17 January 2025

KIPCHOGE SAYS THERE IS MORE AFYER LONDON

London ambition: Marathon great Eliud Kipchoge (Tobias SCHWARZ)

Eliud Kipchoge has dismissed speculation that the upcoming London Marathon will be his farewell race after confirming Friday he plans to run at the age of 40.

The Kenyan, arguably the greatest men's marathon runner of all time, is a two-time Olympic champion over the distance and has 11 wins in elite World Marathon Majors events, including a record four London titles.

Kipchoge, however, failed to finish a marathon for the first time at the Paris 2024 Olympics, sparking speculation his career may be nearing an end.

Asked Friday if the London Marathon on April 27 could be his last race, Kipchoge told a news conference: "No. I will speak more when I finish the marathon.

"Now I'm focusing on training, purely on fitness and my muscles to be ready for the start line in London.

"I don't like to mix some things. I learn to put all my mind on the road, put all my mind on making sure my muscles are lean and ready to combat the London streets. And the rest will come."

Pressed about retirement, he added: "When you convince me that the world has become a running world, I will retire. When you have four billion people running every day I will retire".

Kipchoge's four London triumphs came from 2015 to 2019 -- he missed the 2017 edition.

The field this year will also include 2024 Olympic marathon gold medallist Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia and Kenya's defending London Marathon champion Alexander Mutiso Munyao.

In 2019, Kipchoge became the first person to run a marathon inside two hours but the performance did not count as a world record as the Vienna event and set-up were not ratified by international athletics chiefs.

The official world record of 2 hours and 35 seconds was set in 2023 by fellow Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum, who died in a car crash last year.

- AFP

Monday, 12 February 2024

KENYA'S 🇰🇪 KELVIN KIPTUM: MARATHON WORLD RECORD HOLDER DIES IN ROAD CRASH

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The men's marathon world record holder, Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum, 24, has died in a road accident in his home country.

He was killed alongside his coach, Rwanda's Gervais Hakizimana, in a car on a road in western Kenya on Sunday.

Kiptum made a breakthrough in 2023 as a rival to compatriot Eliud Kipchoge - one of the greatest marathon runners.

And it was in Chicago last October that Kiptum bettered Kipchoge's achievement, clocking the 26.1 miles (42km) in two hours and 35 seconds.

The two athletes had been named in Kenya's provisional marathon team for the Paris Olympics later this year.

Paying tribute to Kiptum, Kenyan Sports Minister Ababu Namwamba wrote on X: "Devastatingly sickening!! Kenya has lost a special gem. Lost for words."

Kenya's opposition leader and former prime minister, Raila Odinga, said the country had lost "a true hero" and was mourning "a remarkable individual... and Kenyan athletics icon".

Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, said Kiptum was "an incredible athlete leaving an incredible legacy, we will miss him dearly".

THE 2023 BERLIN MARATHON WAS INCREDIBLE | KIPCHOGE VS. THE WORLD

Thursday, 13 July 2023

KIPCHOGE RETURNING TO BERLIN AS PART OF PARIS PREPARATION

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Marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge will race in Berlin on Sept. 24 as part of his preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympics, announcing the return to his "special place" in a video on Thursday.

The 38-year-old clocked 2:01.09 in Berlin last year to crush his own world record by about 30 seconds. He is aiming to complete a hat-trick of Olympic wins next year, having won marathon gold in the previous two Games.