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- Ethiopia’s late sub Tola wins marathon in Olympic record in brutal ...
Tamirat Tola, called into the Ethiopian team as a late...
- Ethiopia’s late sub Tola wins marathon in Olympic record in brutal ...
14 sie 2024 · Only three runners in history have won two marathon gold medals, with Abebe Bikila from Ethiopia (Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964), Waldemar Cierpinski from East Germany (Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980) and Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020) the only double Olympic champions. Discover the full list of Olympic marathon winners below.
The Olympic records for the event are 2:06:26 hours for men, set by Tamirat Tola in 2024, and 2:22:55 hours for women, set by Sifan Hassan in 2024. The men's marathon world record has been improved several times at the Olympics: in 1908, 1920, and then at successive Olympics by Abebe Bikila in 1960 and 1964. [11]
History of Olympic Results: Marathon – Men. 2021. (Sapporo, August 8) 1. Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) 2:08:38. 2. Abdi Nageeye (Netherlands) 2:09:58.
Kipchoge is the 2016 and 2020 Olympic marathon champion, and was the world record holder in the marathon from 2018 to 2023, [3] until that record was broken by Kelvin Kiptum at the 2023 Chicago Marathon. Kipchoge has run four of the 10 fastest marathons in history.
10 sie 2024 · Tamirat Tola, called into the Ethiopian team as a late replacement, won the men’s marathon title in an Olympic record of 2:06:26 in brutal heat and humidity over a course of hugely demanding hills, with Belgium’s Bashir Abdi earning silver in 2:06:47.
10 sie 2024 · Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola won the men’s marathon at the Paris Olympics to end Kenya’s dominance of the race. Tola finished in an Olympic record time of 2 hours, 6 minutes, 26 seconds, with Belgium’s Bashir Abdi finishing 21 seconds behind and Benson Kipruto taking bronze for Kenya, 34 seconds back.
