Eliud Kipchoge and Grace Sugutt have been married for 14 years and have three children.
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Eliud Kipchoge was born in Kapsisiywa, Nandi County, Kenya on November 5, 1984. Kipchoge was raised by a single teaching mother. He is the youngest among the four kids. He went to school daily by running three kilometers or two miles. He graduated from Nandi County’s Kaptel Secondary School in 1999, but he did not run actively or professionally at that time. At the age of 16, he met his trainer Patrick Sang, a former Olympic steeplechase medalist.
Kipchoge won his first individual world championship in 2003 when he claimed the junior event at the World Cross Country Championships and set a world junior record over 5000 meters on the track. At the age of eighteen, he became the senior 5000 m world champion with a championship record at the World Championships in 2003, followed by an Olympic bronze for Kenya in 2004 and a bronze at the World Indoor Championships in 2006. Kipchoge, a five-time World Championship 5000 m finalist, won silver medals at the World Championships in 2007, the Beijing Olympics in 2008, and the Commonwealth Games in 2010.
In 2012, he switched to road running and completed his first half marathon in the second-fastest time ever, 59:25. He set a course record to win the Hamburg Marathon in his first marathon in 2013. At the 2014 Chicago Marathon, he earned his first victory in a World Marathon Major. He later went on to win the series title in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Kipchoge has won every major world marathon, except for the Chicago and New York Marathons. He is widely considered to be the greatest marathon runner in history and holds the world record with a time of 2:01:09 achieved at the 2022 Berlin Marathon. He also won the Olympic marathon titles in 2016 and 2020. He has run four of the top five fastest marathons in history.
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Grace Sugutt is an enthusiastic corn farmer who also invests in real estate and raises dairy and poultry animals.
Eluid Kipchoge and Grace Sugutt have three children – Lynne, Griffin and Jordon.
Grace Sugutt was Kipchoge’s neighbour and former classmate. Both have been married for 14 years. She was born in Kenya as well. Grace is a devoted Catholic with a strong desire to help individuals. Grace is also committed to delivering sanitary pads to rural girls in need. She supplies cutting-edge, at least five-year reusable sanitary pads with the support of a donor.
Grace and Kipchoge have instilled in their children the value of humility, and they always try to help those in need. The couple provided food to the athletes who were impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Sugutt emphasizes that this will lead to the establishment of the Eliud Kipchoge Foundation, which has three distinct objectives. The key elements are talent identification and development. The third component includes supporting a reading culture and access to education and environmental conservation passion project.
