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Kelvin Kiptum runs 2:00:35 in Chicago

Kiptum becomes the first athlete to break 2:01 in a record-eligible marathon, taking 34 seconds off Eliud Kipchoge's 2:01:09 from Berlin. World Athletics ratifies the mark. Kiptum is killed in a road accident in February 2024, about a week after ratification. The record moves from Berlin to Chicago for the first time in a quarter of a century.

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Recorded on Chicago Marathon

  1. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
  2. The 1908 distance becomes the world standard
  3. Boston lengthens its course and moves the start to Hopkinton
  4. The first Berlin Marathon, in the Grunewald
  5. The first Chicago Marathon, as the Mayor Daley Marathon
  6. Berlin moves its marathon into the city
  7. The Berlin Marathon runs through the Brandenburg Gate
  8. The World Marathon Majors series is announced
  9. Kelvin Kiptum runs 2:00:35 in Chicago
  10. Ruth Chepngetich runs 2:09:56 in Chicago
  11. Tigst Assefa sets a women-only world record in London
  12. The first sub-two-hour marathon in a record-eligible race

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