Riseit has started Erud Kipchoge He became the third athlete in Olympic history to win gold in a marathon for the second time. The 36-year-old Kenyan took the lead to cross the finish line at the 2016 Rio Olympics and was clearly ahead of Abdi Nageeye (2:09:58) from the Netherlands at 2:08:38 in Sapporo on Sunday. The third place is Bashir Abdi of Belgium (2:10:00). Before this, only Ethiopian Abebe Bikila (1960, 1964) and Waldemar Cierpinski (1976, 1980) from Halle/Saale (1976, 1980) had two victories at 42.195 kilometers.
The German players have nothing to do with the result of the game. Richard Ringer from LC Rehlingen won the 26th best DLV start, 7:30 minutes behind. Amanal Petros crossed the finish line of Odori Park at 7:55 minutes after winning the 30th place. The German record holder from TV Wattenscheid remained in the top group until 25 kilometers, but then had to pay tribute to the high speed and the high temperature around 30 degrees. His club colleague Hendrik Pfeiffer finished 50th with 2:20:43.
Kipchoge attacked at 30 kilometers, quickly ran to a half-minute lead, and made a decision in advance. In the last half hour of the game, he ran to the finish line in front of many spectators, obviously very easy. This is the fourth Olympic medal of the long-distance superstar and the first bronze medal he won over 5000 meters in Athens in 2004 as a teenager.
Kipchoge set a world record for the marathon in Berlin in 2018 with a score of 2:01:39. A year later, he completed the first marathon in Vienna that lasted less than 2 hours, but the time of 1:59:40 hours reached by changing the pacemaker was not a world record. A year ago, Kipchoge of Imola failed on his first attempt.
