Eliud Kipchoge has triumphed in ten of the major marathons held around the globe, including four triumphs in Berlin and four in London.
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The Princess of Asturias Award for Sports for 2023 has been given to Kenyan marathon expert Eliud Kipchoge. The Spanish foundation which is in charge of the awards made the announcement in front of the foundation panel of judges. Kipchoge, 38, who won the 5,000-meter world championship in 2003 and the Olympic gold medal in the marathon in 2016 and 2020, is considered a legend in world athletics and the best marathon runner of all time.
The foundation emphasized that because of his running strategies and concentration, he is known as “the philosopher.”Kipchoge has triumphed in ten of the major marathons held around the globe, including four triumphs in Berlin and four in London. He currently holds the marathon world record with a time of 2:01:09, which was established in Berlin the previous year. He also won the competition at the Olympics. That timing allowed him to cut the record he had established in 2018 by 30 seconds.
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Eliud Kipchoge is the only person in history to finish a marathon in under two hours, though the timing of 1:59:40 he achieved in Vienna in 2019 is not officially recognized because the race was organized so that he could use outside assistance. Exemplary work in the humanities, including the arts, communication, science, and literature, is recognized with one of eight prizes worth a combined 50,000 euros ($54,000). They receive awards from the foundation once a year. 2022’s sports award was won by the Olympic Refugee Foundation and the Olympic Refugee Team. In Spanish-speaking nations, the awards are among the most significant. Every autumn, the award ceremony is held in Oviedo, a city in northern Spain.
Eliud Kipchoge was born on 5 November 1984. He is a long-distance runner from Kenya who formerly concentrated on the 5000-meter distance and currently competes in the marathon. He is regarded as the greatest marathoner of all-time. He won the 2016 and 2020 Olympic marathon competitions, and his 2:01:09 marathon world record was set at the 2022 Berlin Marathon. He set records for finishing four of the top six fastest marathons.
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Kipchoge won his first individual world championship in 2003 by winning the junior race at the World Cross Country Championships and breaking the junior world record over 5000 meters on the track. At the 2003 World Championships, he broke the world record in the senior 5000-meter race at the age of just eighteen. Later, he brought home two bronze medals for Kenya: one at the 2004 Summer Olympics and one at the 2006 World Indoor Championships. Kipchoge won silver medals at the 2007 World Championships, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He finished in the top five in the 5000m event five times at the World Championships.
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