Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge won the Berlin Marathon on Sunday and set a new world record. The Kenyan scored in 2 hours on 01.09, writes AFP.

The previous record, 2 hours 01:39, also belonged to Kipchoge and was set four years ago, also in Berlin, the fourth time a Kenyan had won the trophy in the German capital.

Kipchoge is the Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021.

He also has a bronze Olympic medal at the 5,000 m distance, won at the Athens Olympics (2004) and another silver medal at the same distance, won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where the women’s marathon race ended with the victory of Romanian Constantina Dita, writes Agerpres .

The Kenyan runner has won 14 of the 16 marathon races he has competed in during his career, including two Olympic successes and nine major titles.

In the women’s race on Sunday in Berlin, Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefah took the title in 2:15:37 (third fastest ever), followed by Kenya’s Rosemary Wanjiru (2:18:00) and another Ethiopian, Tigist Abayechev (2h18:03).