Gebrselassie: Why I just can’t wait for Bekele vs Kipchoge duel
Ethiopian athletics legend Haile Gebrselassie during a morning run on the Iten-Kaptagat road in Elgeyo-Marakwet County on February 8, 2020. This was during his two-day visit in Iten to meet athletes under Adidas. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA |
Kipchoge, who became the first man to run the marathon in under two hours last October, holds the world marathon record with a time on two hours, one minute and 39 seconds, which he clocked at the 2018 Berlin Marathon.
Bekele’s time is just two seconds slower, also clocked at the Berlin Marathon last year.
Ethiopia’s distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie completed his whistle-stop tour of Kenya’s North Rift on Saturday saying he eagerly awaits the battle of the titans at the London Marathon in April.
But the former world marathon record holder remained non-committal on whom he thinks would win the battle between the world’s two fastest marathon runners — Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele and Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge — on the streets of London on April 26.
