Eliud Kipchoge Becomes The Fastest Man In History To Run A Full Marathon

Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge has become the fastest man in history to run the full marathon distance, clocking an incredible 2 hours and 25 seconds.Kipchoge's run at the Nike's "Breaking2" in Italy on Saturday was an attempt at running a sub-two hour marathon.Kipchoge, 32, clocked 2:00.25 but because in-out pacemakers were used, the time will not be recognised as a world record, meaning Dennis Kimetto's mark of 2:02.57 is still the quickest."This is history,” he said.The Breaking2 attempt was as much a Nike marketing play and a laboratory experiment as a sports competition.Two-time Boston Marathon winner Lelisa Desisa, from Ethiopia, and Eritrean half-marathon world-record holder Zersenay Tadese also were part of the Breaking2 project but finished well off the pace.“In a bigger field, I think it will happen; it increases the odds of more than one person having the day of a lifetime,” said Dr. Michael Joyner, an expert in human performance at the Mayo Clinic who in 1991 predicted that a human could eventually run the marathon as fast as 1:57:58.The event was promoted as testing the limits of the human body, and going "beyond limits".