{"id":236969,"date":"2026-04-27T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/sabastian-kimaru-sawe-makes-history-running-london-marathon-in-under-2hr\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:22:41","slug":"sabastian-kimaru-sawe-makes-history-running-london-marathon-in-under-2hr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/sabastian-kimaru-sawe-makes-history-running-london-marathon-in-under-2hr\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabastian Kimaru Sawe Makes History Running London Marathon in Under 2hr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The sub 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken in London<\/p>\n<p>Sabastian Sawe: 1:59:30 <br \/>Yomif Kejelcha: 1:59:41<\/p>\n<p>4:34\/mile for 26.2 miles&#8230; insane<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f3LqVSLa2Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/f3LqVSLa2Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marcus Milione (@MarcusMilione) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarcusMilione\/status\/2048387226426355761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kenyan long distance runner Sabastian Kimaru Sawe (born 16 March 1995) has become the first person to <i>ever<\/i> complete an official competitive city marathon in under 2hr. Sawe beat Kelvin Kiptum&#8217;s (RIP) previous world record time by over a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Sawe became the first runner to ever break the two-hour mark in a marathon race, finishing the 26.2 miles in 1:59:30<br \/>(caveat &#8211; there have been other sub-2hr runs in unofficial marathons to see if it was possible. they are not counted as official records)<\/p>\n<p>Prior record holder Kelvin Kiptum (also from Kenya) held the record from 2023 &#8211; 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Sawe and 2 others beat Kiptum&#8217;s time with 1 of the other 2 coming in at under 2hr.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sabastian Sawe (Kenya) 1:59:30<\/b><br \/>Yomif Kejelcha (Ethiopia) 1:59:41<br \/>Jacob Kiplimo (Uganda) 2:00:28<\/p>\n<p>(Not to be outdone or outshone, Tigst Assefa (Ethiopia) delivered a women\u2019s-only world record in 2:15:41!)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1777280400%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262181990%26%26%3A4a20d3ab0e5f81e427444dfcb2c4d39bca08cdf3&amp;preview=&amp;moduleid=2181990&amp;noads=&amp;journalid=3616053\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2181990\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/americankennelclub-running-dogs-great-dane-FlSsJQSFkJaLNSl5Vv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took me 11:45 to run 1mi for the Presidential Fitness Test in 1996. I am awestruck by these athletes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarcusMilione\/status\/2048387226426355761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">source<\/a><br \/>(i did a bunch of reading bc idk shit about running and wanted to share the prowess of these individuals) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132267233.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sub 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken in London Sabastian Sawe: 1:59:30 Yomif Kejelcha: 1:59:41 4:34\/mile for 26.2 miles&#8230; insanepic.twitter.com\/f3LqVSLa2Y \u2014 Marcus Milione (@MarcusMilione) April 26, 2026 Kenyan long distance runner Sabastian Kimaru Sawe (born 16 March 1995) has become the first person to ever complete an official competitive city marathon in under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}