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Fast times the target at Berlin Marathon
- Updated: September 24, 2016
The men’s marathon world record has been broken seven times in Berlin and athletes are targeting fast times once again when the 43rd edition of the BMW Berlin Marathon takes place on Sunday (September 25).
Part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors series, the IAAF Gold Label Road Race has a course record of 2:02:57 – Dennis Kimetto’s world record time from 2014. The year before that, Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang had broken the world record with 2:03:23 on the same Berlin course and he returns to attempt to get the world record back on Sunday.
After his world record in 2013, Kipsang went on to win in London and New York, but finished fifth in London earlier this year. Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele, the 5000m and 10,000m world record-holder, finished third in that London race in April and hopes to improve on his 2:05:04 marathon PB set on his debut in Paris in 2014.
Challenging them will be Kenya’s Emmanuel Mutai, who finished …
