Kenya: Kipchoge keen on becoming global peace envoy once glittering career ends

Double Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge has set his points of interest on turning into a global peace envoy as soon as he comes to a decision to end his glittering profession, however still plans on going for walks for "future years."

The 36-yr-old Kenyan have become just the third guy in records to win again-to-back Olympic gold medals over 26.2 miles in advance this month whilst he beat the sphere via eighty seconds on a hot and humid direction in Sapporo, Japan.

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Kenyan marathoner Eliud Kipchoge

protecting his Rio 2016 name at Tokyo 2020 confirmed Kipchoge's repute as the greatest marathon runner ever, adding to a resume that includes the arena document of 2:01:39 from 2018 and going for walks the primary ever sub-two-marathon, albeit in unofficial situations, as part of the INEOS 1:59 challenge in 2019.

Kipchoge, who changed into talking to SNTV to promote a brand new film documenting his sub-two-hour fulfillment, "Kipchoge: The last Milestone", still rates that day in Vienna as the most important accomplishment of his career, which has visible him win thirteen of the 15 foremost marathons he has run since turning to the field in 2013.

The Kenyan is currently taking a spoil from competing and will determine on his plan for subsequent years in the subsequent months, but might no longer affirm whether he intends to head for an unprecedented hat-trick of Olympic gold medals at Paris 2024.