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Kipchoge had already won bronze over 5000 meters in 2004
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Kipchoge repeats marathon success
02:14: Eliud Kipchoge
has won the marathon competition of the Games in Sapporo.
The 36-year-old Kenyan repeated his success in Rio 2016 in 2: 08.37 hours. Decisive for his success was an increase in pace after 30 kilometers, with which the world record holder got rid of the competition.
Silver went to
Abdi Nageeye
(Netherlands, +1: 20), bronze went to
Bashir Abdi
(Belgium, 1:22).
Curious: The runner-up motivated the third on the finish sprint with motivating hand movements to overtake the Kenyan Lawrence Cherono.
Both medalists were born in Somalia.
The German record holder
Amanal Petros
ran courageously in the top group for a long time, but had to tear down after 25 kilometers and came in 30th.
The best German was
Richard Ringer
as 26th
.
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