(Reuters) – Marathon world report holder and Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge will make his aggressive return on the Tokyo Marathon subsequent month, the Kenyan introduced on Friday.
Kipchoge, who defended his marathon title at Sapporo on the Tokyo Games final 12 months, will return to Japan for his debut Tokyo Marathon.
The 37-year-old holds the world report with a time of two:01:39 set in Berlin in 2018 and have become the one man to break the two-hour barrier at an unofficial race in 2019.
“My focus has been on Tokyo from the start of my coaching cycle, and I can say I’m prepared to race there,” Kipchoge mentioned.
“I’m very excited to run in a rustic the place working is an important a part of the game tradition and searching ahead to expertise the Japanese pleasure for working an the marathon in explicit.”
The Tokyo Marathon will happen on March 6.
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Radnedge)
