Paris (AFP)
The three Norwegian brothers Henrik, Filip and Jakob Ingebrigtsen announced that they would be present on October 12 in Vienna to help Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge in his second attempt to run a marathon in less than two hours.
The Olympic champion (2016) and world record holder (2: 1: 39) of the marathon Eliud Kipchoge (34 years old) launches for the second time in this private challenge: he had run the 42.195 km in 2 hours 25 seconds on the racetrack. Monza (Italy) in May 2017, assisted by a bespoke supply, a car and several runners who took turns to protect him from the wind and give him the tempo.
Monza's performance was not approved by the IAAF in light of these conditions.
Among the "hares", he will be able to count in Vienna on the Ingebrigtsen brothers, three cadors of the world middle distance, who have the same equipment maker as the Kenyan: Henrik (28 years old, European champion in 2012 on 1,500 m), Filip ( 26-year-old world bronze medalist in 2017 over 1,500m) and young prodigy Jakob (18, double European champion 1,500 and 5,000m in 2018).
"It will not be a competition for us, we will be just assistants," Filip told Norwegian radio and television NRK.
"It takes a lot of things to break that record, and you have to be in a good day, it was close the last time, and he's improved his personal best ever since, so if he's in the same shape as in Berlin I expect a record, "he added.
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