Kipchoge Wins Berlin Marathon in 2:04:00, Cherono Takes Women's Race in 2:19:25

Published by IAAF on September 27, 2015

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge again proved himself to be the pre-eminent marathon racer of recent years when he won the 2015 BMW Berlin Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in a 2015 world-leading time of 2:04:00 on Sunday (27).

Kipchoge, the 2003 5000m world champion on the track, took his record to five wins out of six marathon outings since his victorious debut over the classic distance when he won at the 2013 Hamburg Marathon.

Since then, he has notched up triumphs at world famous marathons in Rotterdam, Chicago and London before his win on Sunday in the German capital, where he also suffered his only marathon loss when finishing second in the 2013 race.

The finishing time wasn’t the world record that everyone had hoped for, and was the main talking point before the race after two successive world records in the 2013 and 2014 Berlin races, but that shouldn’t detract from what was a magnificent performance from Kipchoge, who also had to battle with shoe problems from early in the race.

Both insoles from his bright yellow racing shoes had worked their way out by the 16th kilometre and were flapping around his ankles with every step.