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Factbox on Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge who on Saturday became the first person to run ...

VIENNA - Factbox on Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge who on Saturday became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours.

*In 2002, he finished fifth in the World Cross Country Championships individual junior race in Dublin and was part of the Kenyan team that won gold.*Kipchoge won a flurry of medals over 5,000m — gold at the 2003 world championships in Paris, bronze at the 2004 Athens Olympics, silver at the 2007 world championships in Osaka and silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.*Made his half-marathon debut at the 2012 Lille Half Marathon, where he came third.

*Raced in the 2013 Berlin Marathon and finished second in 2:04:05, then the fifth-fastest time in history, in his second marathon.

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