![]() He switched to road running in 2012 and made the second-fastest half marathon debut ever, at 59:25. A five-time World Championship 5000 m finalist, Kipchoge took silver medals at the 2007 World Championships, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games. At the age of eighteen, he became the senior 5000 m world champion at the 2003 World Championships with a championships record, then followed with an Olympic bronze for Kenya in 2004 and a bronze at the 2006 World Indoor Championships. ![]() Kipchoge claimed his first individual world championship title in 2003 by winning the junior race at the World Cross Country Championships and setting a world junior record over 5000 m on the track. He has run four of the six fastest marathons in history. ![]() Regarded as the greatest marathon runner of all time, he is the 20 Olympic marathon champion and the world record holder in the marathon with a time of 2:01:09 set at the 2022 Berlin Marathon. Eliud Kipchoge EGH ( English: / ˌ ɛ l i ˈ uː d k ɪ p ˈ tʃ oʊ ɡ ə/ EL-ee- OOD kip- CHOH-gə born 5 November 1984 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon and formerly specialized at the 5000 metre distance.
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