Eliud Kipchoge Bio, Age, Wife, Family, Net Worth

President Uhuru Kenyatta has feted Eliud Kipchoge with Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya (E.G.H.) award during national Mashujaa Day celebrations in Mombasa on Sunday.

Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya is the highest category of presidential awards which is further divided into three classes: Chief of the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya (C.G.H.), Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya (E.G.H.) and Moran of the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya (M.G.H.)

The Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya (E.G.H.) is often given to among others the Deputy President, Speakers of Parliament, Cabinet Secretaries, the First Lady, the wife of the Deputy President, Head of Public Service and the Kenya Defence Forces’ (KDF) Chief of Staff.

Kipchoge, who became the first man to run a full marathon under two hours on October 12 during the “INEOS 1:59 Challenge”, is the first Kenyan sports personality to receive the award. In his address to the country, Uhuru urged Kenyans to emulate the world marathon record holder.

Eliud Kipchoge makes history as first human to run a marathon in under 2 hours

World record holder Eliud Kipchoge has made history by being the first human to run a marathon in under two hours.

Kipchoge crossed the finish line in 1:59:40.

Asked how he felt about running under two hours, he said, “I’m the happiest man and happy to inspire other people to know that no human is unlimited.”

When he started the race, he was greeted with a misty autumnal morning and a smattering of fans for his bid to run an unofficial sub-two hour marathon.

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The marathon world record holder’s highly controlled attempt to break the two-hour barrier started at 8:15am local time (6.15 GMT) and organisers and there was a crowd of up to 8,000 in Vienna’s Prater Park.

Kipchoge ran 4.4 laps of a 9.6 kilometre course, consisting of a long straight with a loop at each end.

The sport’s governing body, the IAAF, will not recognise the run as an official record because it is not in open competition and it uses in and out pacemakers.

Kipchoge, 34, the reigning Olympic champion who set an official world record of 2:01.39 at the Berlin marathon in September last year, missed out by 26 seconds when he previously attempted to break the two-hour barrier in Monza in May 2017, a race run without spectators.

The 34-year-old was supported by 41 pacemakers who ran in rotating groups and formed a V shape around Kipchoge – as opposed to a diamond formation in Monza – to try and protect him from the wind.

They followed an electric pace car that was programmed to complete the course in 1:59.50 to ensure that Kipchoge ran a steady pace.

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Eliud Kipchoge Biography

Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon Kipchoge is considered as one of the greatest marathon runners of all time. Eliud is the first and only man to break the 2-hour barrier in the marathon with a time of 1:59:40.  He is the current marathon world record holder with a time of 2 hours 1 minute 39 seconds. Kipchoge’s world record run at the 2018 Berlin Marathon, often regarded as the fastest marathon course of the major marathons, broke the previous world record by 1 minute and 18 seconds.

How Old Is Eliud Kipchoge | Eliud Kipchoge Age

Kipchoge was born on 5 November 1984, in Kapsisiywa, Nandi District, Nandy County, Kenya.

Eliud Kipchoge Family | Parent

Kipchoge is the son of Janet Rotich. Kipchoge was raised by a single mother (a teacher), and only knew his father from pictures. He is the youngest of four children. He met his trainer/coach Patrick Sang (a former Olympic medalist in the steeplechase) in 2001 at the age of 16. Kipchoge graduated from Kaptel Secondary School in 1999. While In the school he ran 2 miles to school daily.

Eliud Kipchoge Coach – Patrick Sang

Inspired to run by his neighbor, the former World and Olympic steeplechase silver medallist Patrick Sang, the then-teenage Eliud approached Patrick – who had started life as a coach – for a training program.

The gregarious and generous coach agreed and so began a hugely successful 18-year coach-athlete relationship in which Patrick has handed down his principles of hard work, patience and discipline to his protégé.

Eliud Kipchoge Wife

Eliud Kipchoge is married to Grace Sugut. The couple is a proud parent of three children. Sagut is Very Supportive of her Husband and Constantly goes to marathons to support him. The family resides in Eldoret, Kenya.

Eliud Kipchoge Children

Eliud Kipchoge and his wife Grace Sugut are blessed with three children, Lynne, Griffin, and Jordon.

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Eliud Kipchoge Shoes | Vaporfly | Clothing | Gear

In 2016, Nike unveiled the first version of the Vaporfly, appending “4%” to the name in reference to the energy savings they were purported to provide. The shoes represented the technological component of a three-year, multipronged effort to engineer a perfect marathon and break the 26.2-mile race’s elusive 2-hour barrier at a track in Monza, Italy. Eliud Kipchoge, widely regarded as the greatest marathoner of all time, headlined the attempt. He came just 25 seconds short—closer than most people thought he would.

Granted, the conditions of the race were optimized for speed. Kipchoge had a phalanx of pacers blocking the wind for the majority of the race, and he ran on a loop with zero time-sapping, 90-degree turns so it didn’t count as an official record. What’s more, it was far from clear that the shoes were the key to Kipchoge’s brush with the 2-hour barrier. Yet he and many other runners, professional and otherwise, have worn some version of the shoes in each of their races since.

As well as improved traction requested by Kipchoge, the Vaporfly Next% has more foam in the midsole to add stability and energy return; offset laces for more comfort; a foam pod inside the heel to take the strain off the Achilles tendon; and a new Vaporweave fabric, which is lighter than Nike’s Flyknit and absorbs less water from sweat or rain.

Eliud Kipchoge Diet

Ugali: made from maize meal, it is cooked in water to form a sort of corn cake. This staple is very high in starch and is very bland, lacking much in the way of flavor. Many meals in the farm-stay were served with an almost insurmountable pile of ugali on the side. Managu: a dark leafy green, somewhat like spinach. This is normally eaten after being sautéed in water and some oil, however, some athletes we spoke to even cooked the leaves in milk.

Eliud Kipchoge Height

The world winner Olympic Marathon, Kipchoge has an estimated height of 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)

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Eliud Kipchoge Weight

Kipchoge’s weight is estimated at 57 kg (126 lb).

Eliud Kipchoge Marathon

• 2019 London Marathon, 1st – 2:02:37
• 2018 London Marathon, 1st, – 2:04:17
• 2018 Berlin Marathon, 1st – 2:01:39
• 2017 Breaking2, – 2:00:25
• 2017 Berlin Marathon, 1st – 2:03:32
• 2016 Summer Olympics, 1st – 2:08:44
• 2016 London Marathon, 1st – 2:03:05
• 2015 London Marathon, 1st – 2:04:42
• 2015 Berlin Marathon, 1st – 2:04:00
• 2014 Rotterdam Marathon, 1st – 2:05:00
• 2014 Chicago Marathon, 1st – 2:04:11
• 2013 Hamburg Marathon, 1st – 2:05:30
• 2013 Berlin Marathon, 2nd – 2:04:05

Eliud Kipchoge World Record

• Tokyo Marathon
• Boston Marathon
• London Marathon, 1st – 2:04:42 (2015) 1st – 2:03:05 (2016), 1st – 2:04:17(2018), 1st – 2:02:37 (2019)
• Berlin Marathon, 2nd – 2:04:05 (2013), 1st – 2:04:11 (2015), 1st – 2:03:32 (2017), 1st – 2:01:39 (2018)
• Chicago Marathon, 1st – 2:04:11 (2014)
• New York City Marathon

Eliud Kipchoge Breaking 2 | Eliud Kipchoge Nike

Breaking2 was a Project by Nike to break the two-hour boundary for the long-distance race. Nike declared the venture in November 2016 and composed a group of three world-class sprinters who prepared for a private race. The occasion was hung on the Formula One Autodromo Nazionale Monza race track in Italy on May 6, 2017. At last, the venture missed the mark, with Eliud Kipchoge winning the race at 2:00:25.

Eliud Kipchoge Berlin Marathon 2018

On 16 September 2018, Kipchoge set out to obtain the official world record for the marathon and ensure he would be the best marathon runner and he did so by breaking the previous, held by his compatriot Dennis Kemetto, record by 1 minute 18 seconds in a time of 20:01:39 at the Berlin Marathon.

Eliud Kipchoge Pace

• Kipchoge’s average pace per mile: 4:38.4
• Kipchoge’s average pace per 5K: 14:24.9
• Kipchoge’s average pace for one lap of a standard outdoor track: 69.19 seconds

Eliud Kipchoge Awards

During an unmatched marathon career, Eliud has claimed victory in ten out of 11 marathons, racking up an unprecedented nine successive victories over the 42.2km distance. Besides taking the Olympic marathon title in 2016, the Kenyan’s ground-breaking performance as part of the Nike Breaking 2 project – when running 2:00:25 – suggests he is on the verge of the history-defining achievement.