Eliud Kipchoge Biography, Networth, Age, INEOS, Wife, Salary, History, Salary

Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long-distance runner who races in the marathon and previously the 5000 meters. He won the Olympic marathon in 2016 and set the marathon world record of 2:01:39 on 16 September 2018, at the 2018 Berlin Marathon. His run smashed the previous world record by 1 minute and 18 seconds. It was the most exceptional increase in a marathon world record time since 1967. Read below the complete Eliud Kipchoge Biography.

Date of Birth

Kipchoge was born on 5 November 1984. He is 34 years old as of the date of publishing this post.

Eliud Kipchoge Wife

Eliud Kipchoge is married to Grace Sugut. The couple is a proud parent of three children. Sagut is Very Supportive of her Husband and Constantly goes to marathons to support him. The family resides in Eldoret, Kenya.

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Eliud Kipchoge Children

Eliud Kipchoge and his wife Grace Sugut are blessed with three children, Lynne, Griffin, and Jordon.

Early life and personal life

Kipchoge was born on 5 November 1984 in Kapsisiywa, Nandi District of Kenya. Kipchoge graduated from Kaptel Secondary School in 1999 but did not run seriously then. He ran two miles to school on a daily basis. Kipchoge was raised by a single mother (a teacher), and only knew his father from pictures. He is the youngest of four children. He met his trainer Patrick Sang (a former Olympic medalist in the steeplechase) in 2001 at the age of 16. Kipchoge lives with his wife and three children in Eldoret, Kenya. He trains in Kaptagat 30 km from Eldoret.

Brief Summary of His Career Life

Kipchoge won his first individual world championship title in 2003 by winning the lesser race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships and setting a world junior record more than 5000m on the track. At eighteen years old, he turned into the senior 5000m titleholder at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics with a titles record, at that point pursued with an Olympic bronze for Kenya in 2004 and a bronze at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships. A five-time World Championship 5000m finalist, Kipchoge took silver decorations at the 2007 World Championships, 2008 Summer Olympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games.

He changed to road running in 2012 and made the second-quickest ever half long-distance race debut with 59:25 minutes. On his long-distance race debut, he won the 2013 Hamburg Marathon in a course record time. His first triumph at a World Marathon Major came at the Chicago Marathon in 2014, and he proceeded to move toward becoming the champion of competition for 2016, 2017, and 2018. He won the London Marathon a record multiple times. Depicted as “the best long-distance runner of the advanced time”, Kipchoge has won 12 of the 13 long-distance races he has entered. His lone misfortune was a second spot behind Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich at the 2013 Berlin Marathon, where Kipsang broke the world record.

On 12 October 2019, Kipchoge ran the long-distance race separation on an extraordinary course in Vienna, Austria, accomplishing a period of 1:59:40 in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge. The run didn’t consider another long-distance race record, as standard challenge rules for pacing and liquids were not pursued and it was anything but an open event. The accomplishment was, be that as it may, perceived by Guinness World Records with the titles ‘Quickest long-distance race separation (male)’ and ‘First long-distance race separation keep running under two hours’.

Detailed Career History of Eliud Kipchoge

2002–2004

In 2002, he succeeded at the Kenyan preliminaries for the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships junior race. At the World Cross Country Championships, held in Dublin, Kipchoge completed fifth in the individual race and was a piece of the Kenyan junior group that won gold. Kipchoge likewise won the 5000 meters race at the Kenyan preliminary for the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics, however, became sick and missed the titles. At the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, he won the lesser race.

He set a world junior record in the 5000 m at the 2003 Bislett Games, running a period of 12:52.61 minutes. This remained as the world and African junior record until 2012, when it was improved to 12:47.53 minutes by Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia. In July he partook in the Golden League 2004 Roma Meeting. In the 5000 m occasion, he plunged first among the starters with 12:46.53, which made him the 6th quickest ever in the event.

Kipchoge won a gold award at the 5000 m last at the 2003 World Championships, outsprinting both future world record holder Kenenisa Bekele and next in line Hicham El Guerrouj (the world record holder in the 1500 meters and mile) by four-hundredths of a second (12:52.79 versus 12:52.83).

World Championship and Olympic medals

Kipchoge (third from the right) during the 5000 m heat in the 2007 IAAF World Championship in Osaka. He won a silver award in the last.  In 2004, Kipchoge won a bronze award at the 5000 m last at the 2004 Athens Olympics, behind El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele. He additionally won the Trofeo Alasport cross country race prior that season.

Kipchoge won the bronze in the 3000 meters indoor at the 2006 World Championships in Moscow. Toward the year’s end, he kept running at the San Silvestre Vallecana New Year’s Eve 10 km street race and he simply held off Zersenay Tadese to win in a period of 26:54 minutes. This was superior to the world record, yet the time was helped by the declining course. Kipchoge won a silver decoration at the 5000 m last of the 2007 World Championships at Osaka in 13:46.00, behind Bernard Lagat (13:45.87).

During the 2008 Olympics held in Beijing, China, Kipchoge won a silver decoration in the 5000 m occasion with a period of 13:02.80; albeit superior to the past Olympic record of 13:05.59, it was insufficient to coordinate Kenenisa Bekele’s pace, who won the gold award for this race. He neglected to arrive at the platform at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, completing in the fifth spot and he likewise completed ninth in the 3000 m at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final. On the circuit, he won the Great Yorkshire Run 10K and Campaccio Cross Country that year. As the prerace top choice, during the 2016 Summer Olympics, Kipchoge increased a gold decoration in the long-distance race event. On the most recent day of the Rio Olympics on 21 August 2016, he won in a period of 2:08:44. The next in line was Feyisa Lilesa (Ethiopia) 2:09:54 and the bronze decoration went to Galen Rupp (USA), doing his subsequent long-distance race, crossing the end goal in 2:10:05. At the point when the midpoint after 21.0975 km was come to, 37 men were inside 10 seconds of the lead sprinter. The members’ field lessened to 3 lead sprinters presently before 34 km.

Kipchoge made his last proceed onward silver decoration victor Lilesa around 36 km into the race. He secured the principal half of the race at 1:05:55 while doing the second half in 1:02:49, which adds up to a distinction of over 3 minutes, a negative split. The triumphant hole among Kipchoge and Lilesa by 70 seconds is the biggest triumph edge since the 1972 Olympic marathon. Kipchoge’s triumphant time of 2:08:44 is his slowest long-distance race time (as of Apr 2019). One hundred fifty-five sprinters began the race, which added up to the biggest field in Olympic history; 139 of them completed the race. With this success, Kipchoge turned into the second Kenyan male after Sammy Wanjiru in Beijing 2008 to win an Olympic long-distance race gold decoration. At a similar Olympics, the ladies’ long-distance race was won by Jemima Sumgong thus she turned into the main female Kenyan winner.

2010–11 seasons

He made his introduction to the 2010 IAAF Diamond League by winning the 5000 m Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix in a meet record time. Kipchoge then proceeded to enter the Carlsbad 5000 in CA, USA. The Carlsbad 5 km street race is the setting for the world’s best occasions for a 5k street race for people separately. The quickest to cover the track was Sammy Kipketer in 2000, with 12:59.5 min.[36] Kipchoge made a world best endeavor and despite the fact that he won the race, climate influenced his odds and he completed at 13:11, the fourth-quickest ever for the course up to that point in time.

In the main sports last of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he endeavored to win the 5000 m Commonwealth title. Ugandan sprinter Moses Kipsiro held a slim lead over him in the last phases of the race and Kipchoge wound up in the runner up, taking the silver award somewhere in the range of seven-hundredths of a second behind. He flew back to Europe following to partake in the Belgrade Race through History the next day. His shoe tumbled off in the principal kilometer and, in the wake of returning it on, he made up a lot of ground on the field to in the long run come in just short of the leader two seconds behind Josphat Menjo.

Toward the beginning of 2011, he won the short race at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country, in front of Asbel Kiprop. He endeavored to hold his title at the Carlsbad 5000 in April however came a nearby second behind Dejen Gebremeskel. In May he hustled the 3000 meters (completed third) in Doha, with a period of 7:27.66 and positioned him as the twelfth quickest at the separation up to this point. Kipchoge was picked to speak to Kenya at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and arrived at the 5000 m last for the fifth back to back time, despite the fact that he just oversaw the seventh spot on this event.

2012

Kipchoge came back to the Edinburgh Cross Country in 2012, yet this time he completed third behind Asbel Kiprop and Britain’s Jonathan Hay. He was additionally third at the Carlsbad 5000 in March. He endeavored to increase a spot on the 10,000 m Olympic group at the Prefontaine Classic, however, fell back in the late phases of the Kenyan preliminary race, completing seventh. A seventh-place finish in the Kenyan 5000 m preliminary race implied he would not make a third sequential Olympic team.

He made his half long-distance race debut in the Lille Half Marathon. The run was won by another course record time of 59:05 (beforehand 59:36 by ilahun Regassa set in 2008) from Ezekiel Chebii (previous PB 59:22), trailed by Bernard Koech 59:10, and Kipchoge earned the third spot with 59:25. His season of 59:25 turned into the second quickest Half Marathon debut, just second to Moses Mosop’s 59:20 in Milan in 2010.

On 6 October 2012 Kipchoge keep running in the 2012 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Kavarba Bulgaria. Zsersenay Tadese of Eritrea won at 1:00:19 and Kipchoge put 6th in 1:01:52.

2013

Kipchoge opened his 2013 season with success at the Barcelona Half Marathon in a period of one hour and four seconds. Making his long-distance race debut in April, he showed a smooth change to the more extended separation by taking the Hamburg Marathon title with a keep running of 2:05:30 hours—beating the field by more than two minutes and setting another course record. In August 2013, he won the Half Marathon of Klagenfurt in 1:01:02 minutes.

At that point, he dashed in the Berlin Marathon and he completed second in 2:04:05, the fifth-quickest time ever, in his second-ever marathon, behind Wilson Kipsang, who set another long-distance race world record with 2:03:23. Third spot went to Geoffrey Kipsang of Kenya with 2:06:26. This was one of 11 world record since 1977 set at the Berlin Marathon (As of 2019).

2015

On 2 February, 2015 Kipchoge took an interest in the Ras al-Khaimah Half Marathon. He set 6th with a period of 1:00:05. The run was won by Mosinet Geremew (Ethiopia) in 1:00:05. Kipchoge won the Berlin Marathon in 2015. His success and after that individual best time (2:04:00) happened despite the fact that his shoes broke down, making his insoles fold out of the two shoes from 10 km ahead; as opposed to hazard time lost from an alteration, he completed the race with bloodied, rankled feet.

2016

In April 2016, Kipchoge won the London Marathon for the second back to back year in a period of 2:03:05.[58] His exhibition broke the course record in London, and turned into the second-quickest long-distance race time ever, missing Dennis Kimetto’s reality record by 8 seconds. On 20 November 2016, Kipchoge kept running in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, winning the race timing a period of 59:44.

2017

On 6 May 2017, Kipchoge, alongside Zersenay Tadese (at that point world record holder in the half long-distance race) and Lelisa Desisa (2 time Boston Marathon champ), endeavored the first sub-two-hour helped long-distance race, in the Nike Breaking2 venture on the Monza Formula 1 course close to Milan, Italy. Every one of the 3 sprinters ran a test 2 months before the endeavor. The objective time was 1 hour for a half Marathon. Kipchoge completed first at 59:17. The course was estimated at 2400 m. During the 2 hour endeavor, the sprinters were paced by a lead vehicle and 30 supporting pacers participating in stages (both considered unlawful under IAAF rules). The race began at 5:45h nearby time on the 2.4 km track. Kipchoge completed at 2:00:25, while the other two needed to slow and completed far behind. The sprinters arranged even 14:13 5k parts to break 2 hours. His 5k parts were: 14:14, 14:07, 14:13, 14:15, 14:14, 14:17, 14:17, 14:27, and 6:20 to finish. The 5k split occasions from 25k and further would be world records: 25k in 1:11:03, 30k in 1:25:20, 35k in 1:39:37, 40k in 1:54:04.

On 24 September 2017, he won the Berlin Marathon in a period of 2:03:32. In stormy conditions, he completed 14 seconds in front of Guye Adola who ran his first long-distance race. Adola set the quickest long-distance race debut ever. Former long-distance race world record holder Wilson Kipsang and 2016 champ Kenenisa Bekele neglected to finish.

2018

Kipchoge won the 2018 London Marathon against a field that included Mo Farah (4 times Olympic gold medalist), who completed third with a period of 2:06:32 in his subsequent long-distance race, Kenenisa Bekele (3 times Olympic gold medalist and World Record holder 5000 m and 10000 m), and protecting boss Daniel Wanjiru.

On 16 September 2018, Kipchoge won the Berlin Marathon in a period of 2:01:39, breaking the past world record by 1 moment and 18 seconds (2:02:57 set by individual comrade Dennis Kimetto at the Berlin Marathon in 2014). He completed 4:43 min in front of second put individual Kenyan Amos Kipruto. The World Record holder from 2013, Wilson Kipsang of Kenya, came in third in 2:06:48. From 2003 onwards, all past 6 world records in the men’s long-distance race were set at the Berlin marathon.

Kipchoge started the race with three pacemakers devoted to him. After 5 km on the run, the hole among him and the Kipsang gathering was 9 seconds. After 15 km in the race, two of the pacemakers were not able to keep pacing him. The rest of the pacemaker dropped out after 25 kilometers, leaving Kipchoge to cover the last 17 km alone. Kipchoge had intended to keep running with a pacemaker however 30 km (as opposed to 25 km); this affliction “was awful,” he reflected post-race, “yet I needed to believe”. Kipchoge quickened, covering the subsequent half (1:00:33) of the race quicker than the principal half (1:01:06). In bright climate conditions, the temperature was 14 °C (57 °F) during the beginning and 18 °C (64 °F) when Kipchoge crossed the completion line.

Prior to the run, Kipchoge expressed, he wanted to run another individual best. The prize cash he made for his Berlin run was €120,000, comprising of €30,000 for completing in under 2:04 hours, €40,000 for the success and a further €50,000 for setting another world record. The world record set during this run was the eighth world record in 20 years in the men’s long-distance race at the Berlin marathon.

The pace during the run arrived at the midpoint of to 2:53/km (4:38/mile). The second 50% of the race in 1:00:33 is quicker than everything except three American half-long distance race times, and the last 10 km was shrouded in 28:33. It was the most equitably paced long-distance race at any point recorded, with the quickest 5 km interim shrouded in 14:18 and the slowest in 14:37, a distinction of 19 seconds. His split occasions during his reality record were as follows:

Following his exhibitions in the 2018 season, Kipchoge got different honors and acknowledgments. He was named IAAF World Athlete of the Year together with Caterine Ibargüen, who got the female World Athlete of the Year award. On 11 January 2019, Kipchoge was likewise named the 2018 Sportsman of the Year at the Kenyan Sports Personality of the Year Awards in Mombasa, Kenya, beating individual contenders for the pined for the trophy, competitor Hellen Obiri, fighter Fatuma Zarika, and rugby star Janet Okelo.

2019

Kipchoge won the 2019 London Marathon in a period of 2:02:37, the second quickest long-distance race ever, behind his 2018 Berlin Marathon win. His fourth win in London denotes another course record, beating his very own 2016 London Marathon record by 28 seconds. The lead sprinter passed the half long-distance race mark in 1:01:37. Mosinet Geremew (Ethiopia) completed as the sprinter up in 2:02:55 and Mule Wasihun (Ethiopia) came in the third spot at 2:03:16. The British sprinter Mo Farah (4 times Olympic Gold medalist), a pre-race top pick, completed 5th.

Ineos 1:59 Challenge

In May 2019, a couple of days after his London Marathon win, Kipchoge reported another interpretation of the sub-two-hour long-distance race, named the Ineos 1:59 Challenge. On 12 October 2019 in Vienna’s Prater park, he ran 4.4 laps of the Hauptallee in 1:59:40, effectively however informally breaking the two-hour barrier. He turned into the main individual in written history to run the long-distance race separation in less than two hours. The exertion didn’t consider another world record under IAAF governs because of the arrangement of the test. In particular, it was anything but an open occasion, Kipchoge was given liquids by his help group all through, the run highlighted a pace vehicle, and included pivoting groups of different sprinters pacing Kipchoge in an arrangement intended to lessen wind opposition and augment effectiveness.

Eliud Kipchoge Marathon

• 2019 London Marathon, 1st – 2:02:37
• 2018 London Marathon, 1st, – 2:04:17
• 2018 Berlin Marathon, 1st – 2:01:39
• 2017 Breaking2, – 2:00:25
• 2017 Berlin Marathon, 1st – 2:03:32
• 2016 Summer Olympics, 1st – 2:08:44
• 2016 London Marathon, 1st – 2:03:05
• 2015 London Marathon, 1st – 2:04:42
• 2015 Berlin Marathon, 1st – 2:04:00
• 2014 Rotterdam Marathon, 1st – 2:05:00
• 2014 Chicago Marathon, 1st – 2:04:11
• 2013 Hamburg Marathon, 1st – 2:05:30
• 2013 Berlin Marathon, 2nd – 2:04:05

Eliud Kipchoge World Record

• Tokyo Marathon
• Boston Marathon
• London Marathon, 1st – 2:04:42 (2015) 1st – 2:03:05 (2016), 1st – 2:04:17(2018), 1st – 2:02:37 (2019)
• Berlin Marathon, 2nd – 2:04:05 (2013), 1st – 2:04:11 (2015), 1st – 2:03:32 (2017), 1st – 2:01:39 (2018)
• Chicago Marathon, 1st – 2:04:11 (2014)
• New York City Marathon

Eliud Kipchoge Salary and Networth

Kipchoge Eliud’s net worth is still under review. He Picked up £38,000 for his stunning display in Berlin last year. Kipchoge also pocketed £534,000 for setting a new world record. The star took home £39,000 by winning the 2018 London Marathon and banks £42,500 with his victory in 2019. His Networth is estimated to be $6.5 million dollars since he also supplements his earnings with a Lucrative deal with Nike. Networth of over 400 million Kenyan Shillings.

Eliud Kipchoge to hit billion shilling mark after INEOS 1:59 Challenge

Eliud Kipchoge Sponsors

Representatives of Isuzu EA Ltd said they were proud to be associated with Kipchoge, who is their brand ambassador, adding that they’ll reward him an Isuzu Dmax (double cabin car) as a gift for breaking the world record.

“I am happy for Kipchoge. He made history by breaking the record. We have been expecting him to break this record for a long time and we were not hesitant about it for we knew one day he’ll do it,” Isuzu East Africa’s Communication officer Duncan Muhindi said.

Courtesy of his huge victory that has now made him one of the most revered sportsmen in the world, Kipchoge is now Ksh 12 million rich; after claiming Ksh. 5 million for winning the race and Kshs. 7 million for breaking the world record.

Eliud Kipchoge Quotes

Naturally curious in nature and possessing a clear, analytical mind – Eliud Kipchoge has a thirst for knowledge and is a voracious reader of self-help books.

Known as “The Philosopher” for his carefully considered quotes he is always willing to share his wisdom with all those at his training base in Kaptagat where he is termed the “boss man” for his inspirational role as the de-facto camp leader.