Eliud Kipchoge started the men's marathon at a high pace and few were able to keep up with the hot Tokyo weather.
After 30 km, it was a tight group of eleven runners who made up for the medals.
With a few kilometers left, the Kenyan withdrew and the distance increased with each passing kilometer.
Kipchoge was able to run unchallenged in goal on victory time 2.08.38 and was then one minute and twenty seconds ahead of the runner-up, Abdi Nageeye, from the Netherlands, who won a sprint battle for places behind the sovereign Kenyan against Belgian bronze medalist Bashir Abdi and Kenyan Lawrence Cherono.
Eliud Kipchoge is one of the best marathon runners of all time. At the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro in 2016, he took his first Olympic gold. He already has Olympic medals from 5000 meters from the Olympics in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008. In 2019, he became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. Now he can put another success on the merit list.