{"id":3610,"date":"2026-04-27T07:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:51:22","slug":"sabastian-sawe-becomes-first-man-under-two-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"Sabastian Sawe becomes first man under two hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>Sabastian Sawe has broken through the human barrier. He even blew it up. The 29-year-old Kenyan became this Sunday the first athlete to run a marathon in less than two hours, in London, where he retained his title ahead of Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha and Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo.<\/p>\n<p>Sawe crossed the finish line in front of Buckingham Palace after 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds and smashed the old world record set by Kelvin Kiptum of 2 hours, 1 minute and 25 seconds in April 2023, less than a year before he died in a car crash.<\/p>\n<h2>A decisive attack at the 30th kilometer<\/h2>\n<p>The craziest thing in this story? Sawen&#8217;s runner-up, Kejelcha also completed the 42,195 km in less than two hours (1h59:41), a performance all the more incredible as the half-marathon specialist was competing in the premier distance for the first time. Dingo.<\/p>\n<p>Kiplimo (2h00:28), second last year for his first marathon, also achieved a better time than that established by Kiptum three years ago. Sawe was leading a group of six runners when he accelerated before the 30th kilometer. Only Kejelcha managed to stay alongside him, with Kiplimo a few meters behind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabastian Sawe has broken through the human barrier. He even blew it up. The 29-year-old Kenyan became this Sunday the first athlete to run a marathon in less than two hours, in London, where he retained his title ahead of Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha and Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo. Sawe crossed the finish line in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}