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The legend of world athletics, the Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, Princess of Asturias Award for Sports

the kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge has been awarded the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, as announced on Thursday 18 by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, whose honorary president is Leonor.

Eliud Kipchoge (Nandi, Kenya 1984) will receive in October at the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports from the daughter of Philip VI y Joy.

Kipchoge, the current absolute dominator of the marathon event, is considered a legend of world athletics and the best marathon runner of all time. In recent years, he has managed to prevail in fifteen of the eighteen tests of the discipline he has competed in and has climbed to the top of the podium ten times in four of the so-called Great Marathons: Chicago (2014), London (2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019), Berlin (2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022) and Tokyo (2022). He belongs to the NN Running Team from the Netherlands.

Nicknamed the Philosopher for his strategic racing prowess and ability to focus, Kipchoge is the current Olympic marathon champion and also holds the world record for the discipline, with a time of 2:01:09, set at the Berlin Marathon. in 2022, with which he reduced by thirty seconds the one set up to that moment by himself in this competition in 2018.

Chris Lawrence

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