
“That was the best moment of my life” said Eliud Kipchoge as he stood exhausted but still smiling at the finish line. Two hours later he stood in the middle of the tree-lined Hauptallee, having just sprinted to the finish of the Ineos 1:59 Challenge, the first human to break 2 hours for the marathon. “I don’t know where the limits are, but I would like to go there” said Eliud Kipchoge as dawn broke over the Danube river in Vienna early this morning. “I don’t know where the limits are, but I would like to go there” … Eliud Kipchoge shows what it means to be extra ordinary.


Photo: Thomas Lovelock for The INEOS 1:59 Challenge The INEOS 1:59 Challenge, Vienna, Austria. Eliud Kipchoge celebrates as he crosses finish line and makes history to become the first human being to run a marathon in under 2 hours. Just like Roger Bannister who became the first man to break the four-minute mile barrier against all odds and in defiance of the experts who thought it impossible so to has Eliud Kipchoge become the first human being to break the two-hour marathon barrier coming in at 1:59:40 in Vienna today.
