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Get to Know Marathon Champion Eliud Kipchoge

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RunnerSpace.com/RoadRacing   Oct 26th 2015, 4:51pm
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Personal Bests with Eliud Kipchoge

Published by IAAF on October 26, 2015

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge has enjoyed a stellar year, winning both the Berlin and London marathons. Here the 2003 world 5000m champion offers his version on a few of the best aspects of his life.  

My best achievement

It was definitely becoming 5000m world champion at the age 19 at the 2003 Paris World Championships. I still remember the bit crowd chanting after I crossed the finish line, it was really loud. It came as a surprise to me to win gold because it was my first World Championships but above all I was up against two great competitors in Kenenisa Bekele and Hicham El Guerrouj. Victory in Paris changed my life. From that point on I was invited to all the big races for 10 or more years. 

My best achievement outside athletics

It is being a family man with three children, two boys and one girl, and a wife and being able to mentor the young generation to love sport and to know sport can have a positive health benefit.

My greatest rival

It was the Ethiopian great Kenenisa Bekele. I raced him for 10 years and I beat him only once – in Paris 2003. In all my other races I had to play second best to him. He was a rival but he was always a very sporting rival.



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