LONDON (AP)– The London Marathon commemorated in 2015’s winner Kelvin Kiptum with a duration of applause before the start of the guys’s race on Sunday.
Kiptum was eliminated in addition to his coach in an auto accident in his native Kenya in February. At the age of 24, he was currently the marathon world record holder and deemed a leading competitor for gold at the Olympics in Paris this year.
Kiptum set a London Marathon course record of 2 hours, 1 minute, 25 seconds in 2023– ending up almost 3 minutes ahead of his closest competitor.
A video of his win was played before the start of the guys’s race on Sunday, before a duration of applause by the runners and the crowd at both the start location in Greenwich and the surface in front of Buckingham Palace in main London.
Kenenisa Bekele, the Ethiopian previous Olympic 10,000 and 5,000-meter champ who is still contending in the elite marathon field at the age of 41, stated today that Kiptum had actually currently produced “a fantastic history” in the sport.
“Kelvin naturally, everyone miss him,” stated Bekele, who was the runner-up in the London Marathon in 2017. “We put him in an unique location in our heart since … within a brief time he has actually done a lot for our sport.”
Kiptum was driving when his lorry diverted off a roadway and into a ditch before striking a tree, cops stated. He had actually broken the world record at last year’s Chicago Marathon.