Sabastian Sawe Breaks Fabled 2-Hour Barrier In The Marathon To Shatter World Record By 65 Seconds

Sport

LONDON (AP) — The fabled 2-hour barrier for a marathon has been broken, officially, in an once-inconceivable achievement in sports. Not by one runner, but two. In a race for the ages, Sabastian Sawe of Kenya won the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday, shattering the previous men’s world record by an astonishing 65 seconds. “What comes today is not for me alone,” the 29-year-old Sawe said, “but for all of us today in London.” Just 11 seconds further back was Ethiopia’