Overview
- The 40-year-old confirmed that Sunday’s New York City Marathon will be the final race of his professional career after 13 seasons on the roads.
- He leaves with 16 victories in 23 official marathons, including 11 wins at the sport’s premier events.
- Kipchoge won Olympic marathon gold in 2016 and 2021, becoming the first man to defend the title since 1980.
- He set official world records in Berlin at 2:01:39 (2018) and 2:01:09 (2022), and recorded a symbolic but non-ratified 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019.
- In July he was elected as the male athletes’ representative to Kenya’s National Olympic Committee, and he has hinted at personal challenges after retiring.