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Limits RegistryKenya's Sabastian Sawe ran 1:59:30 at the 2026 London Marathon on April 26, 2026 — the first sub-two-hour marathon ever run in official, record-eligible race conditions. (Eliud Kipchoge's 1:59:40 in the 2019 INEOS 1:59 Challenge used rotating pacers and a start/finish loop that made it ineligible as an official record.)
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Kenya's Sabastian Sawe ran 1:59:30 at the 2026 London Marathon on April 26, 2026 — the first sub-two-hour marathon ever run in official, record-eligible race conditions. (Eliud Kipchoge's 1:59:40 in the 2019 INEOS 1:59 Challenge used rotating pacers and a start/finish loop that made it ineligible as an official record.)
The fastest time recorded for a man to run the standard marathon distance of 42.195 km in a World Athletics record-eligible road race — a certified course meeting the elevation-drop and start-finish-separation rules, run in open competition without rotating pacers.
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Limits Registry. LR-MARATHON-MEN. Men's marathon. 2026.