Eliud Kipchoge, the two-time Olympic champion in marathon running, has set himself the goal of winning his third pentathlon at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
"I am confident that things will go well and I will be there at the start in Paris in 2024," said Kipchoge on Tuesday, who with his success in Tokyo became the third athlete to defend his title at the 42.195 kilometer distance, and could be the first in Paris. who succeeds for the second time. - "I like historic deeds. And winning the Olympic gold medal three times in a row is definitely on my bucket list."
The 37-year-old Kenyan long-distance runner is already considered the best marathoner of all time, not by chance, as he has won 15 of the 17 races of his career so far, once he was second and once, in the 2020 London competition, he finished in eighth place. In addition, he holds the unofficial (1:59:40) and official world record for the track. He improved the latter to 2:01:09 a week and a half ago in Berlin. In the German capital, Kipchoge consigned his own record of 2:01:39, set in 2018, to the past.
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