Eliud Kipchoge

Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long-distance runner whose career spans both track and marathon racing. He won the 5,000 metres at the 2003 World Championships and became a two-time Olympic marathon champion, taking gold at Rio 2016 and the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games. In 2019, he became the first person to complete a marathon in under two hours, recording 1:59:40 in the INEOS 1:59 Challenge, though the performance was not an official world record.