2023-05-18 13:32:34
Kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge, two-time Olympic marathon champion honored today with the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, confessed that receiving the award is an “absolute honor” and a motivation to “leave a legacy in this world through races “.
“(The award) motivates me in my goal of leaving a legacy in this world through racing, since a world of runners is a more peaceful, happier and healthier world,” added Kipchoge, to whom the jury of The Princesa noted as “a benchmark for world athletics” and “the greatest marathon runner of all time.”
Likewise, he valued his “important social work” through the foundation that bears his name, which is dedicated to facilitating access to early childhood education and environmental protection.
Born on November 5, 1984 in Nandi county, Kenya, he won the gold medal in the marathon at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and also won the silver in the 5,000-meter event in Beijing 2008 and the bronze in Athens 2004.
Kipchoge, who is part of the NN Running Team from the Netherlands, is the current absolute dominator of the marathon event and is considered a legend of world athletics, as well as the best marathon runner of all time.
In recent years, he has managed to prevail in fifteen of the eighteen tests of the discipline he has competed in and has climbed to the top of the podium ten times in four of the so-called Great Marathons: Chicago (2014), London (2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019), Berlin (2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022) and Tokyo (2022).
Nicknamed “the Philosopher” for his strategic racing prowess and ability to focus, Kipchoge is the reigning Olympic marathon champion.
He also holds the world record for the discipline, with a mark of 2:01:09, established in the Berlin Marathon last year, with which he lowered by thirty seconds the time set up to that moment by himself in this competition in 2018.
Likewise, he is the only athlete who has run a marathon in less than two hours, although the brand was not approved. EFE
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