{"id":41708,"date":"2026-04-27T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/london-marathon-2026-results-sabastian-sawe-makes-history-with-first-competitive-sub-two-hour-marathon\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T05:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:07:11","slug":"london-marathon-2026-results-sabastian-sawe-makes-history-with-first-competitive-sub-two-hour-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/london-marathon-2026-results-sabastian-sawe-makes-history-with-first-competitive-sub-two-hour-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"London Marathon 2026 results: Sabastian Sawe makes history with first competitive sub-two-hour marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sabastian Sawe made history at the London Marathon by becoming the first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Kenyan crossed the line to win in one hour 59 minutes 30 seconds, more than one minute faster than the late Kelvin Kiptum’s previous record of 2:00:35, set in 2023.<\/p>\n

The great Eliud Kipchoge became the first man to run a marathon in under two hours in 2019, but that was not record-eligible<\/a> as it was held under controlled conditions.<\/p>\n

Already on world record pace as he crossed the halfway mark in 1:00:29, Sawe was able to speed up over the second half of the race to run even faster than Kipchoge’s time.<\/p>\n

Sawe made his decisive move before the final 10km, with only debutant Yomif Kejelcha able to cover his surge off the front.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, Kejelcha, making his marathon debut, became the second man to run under two hours in race conditions, finishing runner-up in 1:59:41.<\/p>\n

Half marathon world record holder Jacob Kiplimo also crossed the line faster than Kiptum’s former record, completing the podium in 2:00:28.<\/p>\n

Sawe, speaking on BBC TV, said: “I am feeling good. I am so happy. It is a day to remember for me.”<\/p>\n

“We started the race well. Approaching finishing the race, I was feeling strong. Finally reaching the finish line, I saw the time, and I was so excited.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Sabastian Sawe made history at the London Marathon by becoming the first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race. The 31-year-old Kenyan crossed the line to win in one hour 59 minutes 30 seconds, more than one minute faster than the late Kelvin Kiptum’s previous record of 2:00:35, set in 2023. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41710,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41708\/revisions\/41710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}