Geoffrey Mutai, the winner of the 2011 Boston Marathon, came very close to two hours in his finish time last year. He set a course-record, world-best time of 2:03:02.
Yet when asked about the possibility of an under-two-hour marathon, he sounded doubtful.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
A Two-Hour Marathon?
ONE of the mighty un-scaled peaks of athletics lost a little more of its once presumed invincibility late last month when Haile Gebrselassie gave the world a glimpse of the first two-hour marathon
More than four decades since the sport's last great conquests - Roger Bannister's destruction of the four-minute mile barrier in 1954 and Jim Hines breaking 10seconds for the 100m in 1968 - the same lasting legacy achieved by these two men beckons in the marathon.
Gebrselassie sliced 27 seconds off his own world record to win in 2hr03min 59sec
By breaking through the 2:04 barrier, he scattered the clouds that had obscured the two-hour peak.
Expert opinion is divided over how long it will take before the summit is reached, and some even remain doubtful it will be.
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