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Kipsang Takes On Tough Field in Berlin

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RunnerSpace.com/RoadRacing   Sep 4th 2014, 3:50pm
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Berlin Marathon: Will Geoffrey Kipsang Win?

Published by Athletics Illustrated on September 4, 2014

The onset of autumn brings about anticipation of two exciting disciples in running, the cross-country and marathon seasons. While cross-country is an important part of training and racing and is exciting to watch, it is the marathon that brings out the most vocal of prognostications.

The big three IAAF Gold Label Marathon events happening this fall that should produce the fastest times are the BMW Berlin Marathon, Bank of America Chicago Marathon and the TCS New York City Marathon. Additionally, there are two IAAF Silver Label marathon events, which are the TCS Amsterdam Marathon and the BMW Frankfurt Marathon. There are countless other marathons taking place throughout the world this fall, however, for this article, let’s focus on the men in Berlin.

Although all eyes will be on the Chicago marathon with the great Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia attempting the world record, the Berlin Marathon happens first on Sunday, September 28th, versus Chicago’s date two Sunday’s later. Berlin features an outstanding elite field that includes a few athletes who may very well be seeking the marathon world record too; the record could conceivably fall in both events.

The record stands at 2:03:23 by Kenyan Wilson Kipsang, who also owns the third-fastest time ever (2:03:43); he is the only marathon runner to twice run under the 2:04:00 benchmark. To run the world record, Kipsang averaged a pace of 2:56.5/km for 42.195 kilometres or 4:42.3/mile for 26.2 miles.

The Berlin event has produced six of the 10 all-time fastest results as well as seven of the top-11, if you don’t include the two outright fastest times that were both run on the B.A.A. Boston Marathon course in 2011, which are deemed ineligible for world records by the IAAF; they are 2:03:02 by Geoffrey Mutai and 2:03:06 by Moses Mosop, both athletes are from Kenya.



Read the full article at: athleticsillustrated.com

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