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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Eliud Kipchoge, the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder, won the Enschede Marathon on Sunday in preparation for the Tokyo Games.<\/p>\n

“It is mission accomplished,” the 36-year-old Kenyan said.<\/p>\n

“It was so good a marathon happened a few months before the Olympics to test our fitness.”<\/p>\n

Kipchoge completed the course, over eight laps at Twente airport, in 2 hours 4 minutes and 30 seconds. He was well outside his official world record of 2:01.39 set in Berlin in 2018 but comfortably outpaced his competition.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Korir, another Kenyan, stayed with his training partner until 33km when Kipchoge accelerated. Korir dropped away to finish more than two minutes back in 2:06.40, a personal best.<\/p>\n

Goitom Kifle of Eritrea trimmed two seconds from his best time to take third in 2:08.07.<\/p>\n

In the women’s race, German Katharina Steinruck sliced almost a minute-and-a-half from her personal best as she won in 2:25:59.<\/p>\n

Steinruck dropped her rivals in the second half of the race.<\/p>\n

Portuguese veteran Sara Moreira took second in 2:26:42 with Germany’s Rabea Schoneborn improving her personal best by more than a minute-and-a-half to finish third in 2:27:03.<\/p>\n

The invitation-only event, which served as a Tokyo Games qualifier, was originally scheduled for Hamburg but was moved to a closed circuit in the Netherlands and put back a week because of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

It was billed “the fastest way to Tokyo” and in overcast conditions 15 men and 10 women beat the Olympic automatic qualifying time.<\/p>\n

“The conditions were really good, a bit windy but I have no complaint,” Kipchoge said.<\/p>\n

Kipchoge had won 11 straight marathons before a disastrous eighth place in the London marathon last October won by Ethiopian Shura Kitata. He blamed cramp and “problems with my hip”.<\/p>\n

Kipchoge rebounded in eight laps on the Enschede runways.<\/p>\n

He ran his ninth fastest marathon and set a world best for the year as he showed strong form three months before the Olympic marathon which will take place in Sapporo, in northern Japan.<\/p>\n

As defending Olympic champion he had already qualified for the Games.<\/p>\n

“To organise this in the middle of a pandemic and show that people can still run and deliver their best race before the Olympics is very important,” Kipchoge said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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