The Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum He assured this Sunday, after signing the new one world record (2 hours and 35 seconds), that his mind is now “on the Games” in Paris 2024 and highlighted his admiration for the former world record holder, his compatriot Eliud Kipchoge, who for him is “the best ever.”
“My main goal is to set the career record, but he was ready to run fast. “I don’t have confidence in the world record, but I’m in good shape to run fast,” Kiptum said at the post-marathon press conference, organized at a downtown Chicago Hilton hotel.
“Now the Olympic Games is on my mind. It puts me in a good position,” acknowledged the 23-year-old Kenyan athlete.
Kiptum established a new marathon world record, winning in Chicago, one of the six ‘big ones’ of the season, in two hours and 35 seconds and bettering Eliud Kipchoge’s mark (2 hours, one minute and 25 seconds) .
The Kenyan distance runner was 16 seconds behind Kipchoge’s mark at the London Marathon and achieved a victory in Chicago.
“At 30 kilometers I saw that my body was responding and I could attack. And at five kilometers from the end I saw that I could achieve the world record,” said the Kenyan.
With his mark of two hours and 35 seconds, Kiptum is close to breaking the two-hour barrier, although he stressed that he is not focused on that at the moment.
The athlete briefly answered most of the questions, but spoke with great admiration for his idol Kipchoge, who he passed this Sunday.
“Kipchoge is the greatest everhe has done a lot, we respect him and we have to continue what he has done,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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