In its first year as a World Marathon Major, the Sydney Marathon landed a big fish for its elite field. Eliud Kipchoge, the former world record holder in the marathon and a two-time Olympic gold medalist,

Twice Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge will run the Sydney Marathon in August, he said on Thursday. The 40-year-old Kenyan, who won back-to-back Olympic titles in 2016 and 2020, became in 2019 the first man to run a marathon in under two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.

Two-time Olympics marathon champion and former world record holder Eliud Kipchoge will race in Oceania for the first time in his career, in the Sydney Marathon on August 31.The Sydney Marathon was last year included in the elite global series Abbott World Marathon Majors that has Tokyo,