Kipchoge will be nearly 40 come Paris, more than one year older than the oldest Olympic champion in any running event, according to. He is expected to race two more marathons before the Paris Games. Kipchoge’s only other 26.2-mile loss was when he was runner-up at his second career marathon in Berlin in 2013. Boston’s weather on Monday, rainy, was similar to London in 2020.
Kipchoge has yet to speak to media, but may be asked whether a failed water bottle grab just before he lost contact with a leading pack of five contributed to his first defeat since he placed eighth at the 2020 London Marathon. He skipped his traditional spring marathon plan of racing London to go for the win in Boston, the world’s oldest annual marathon dating to 1897. Kipchoge has won four of the six, just missing Boston and New York City, a November marathon that he has never raced. Kipchoge, 38, hopes next year to become the first person to win three Olympic marathons, but major doubt was thrown on that Monday, along with his goal to win all six annual World Marathon Majors. It marked just Kipchoge’s third defeat in 18 career marathons, a decade-long career at 26.2 miles that’s included two world record-breaking runs and two Olympic gold medals. “Eliud was not so much of a threat because the bottom line was that we trained well.” “I did not observe Kipchoge,” Chebet said of what happened, according to the Boston Athletic Association. He finished 3 minutes, 29 seconds behind fellow Kenyan Evans Chebet, who clocked 2:05:54 and became the first male runner to repeat as Boston champion since 2008. Kipchoge was dropped around 19 miles in his Boston Marathon debut in the middle of the race’s famed hills.
I pushed myself as hard as I could but sometimes, we must accept that today wasn’t the day to push the barrier to a greater height.” “I live for the moments where I get to challenge the limits,” was posted on Kipchoge’s social media four hours after he finished. He will leave with a sixth-place result and questions about whether he can achieve two outstanding, unprecedented goals. Eliud Kipchoge came to Boston seeking to add the world’s most storied annual marathon to his trophy case.
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