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Eliud Kipchoge

Kenyan marathon runner

Kenya · b. 1984

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Won the Olympic marathon in 2016 and 2021 and set the marathon world record in Berlin in 2018 and 2022. In October 2019 he ran 26.2 miles in under two hours in an unratified exhibition event in Vienna. He trains at a communal camp in Kaptagat in the Kenyan highlands.

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Question What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore? Time & hindsight read 88 other answers →

Only the disciplined ones are free in life. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods. You are a slave to your passions.

Recorded Address at the Oxford Union Society, November 2017, Outside, 10 February 2018 source ↗

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