BMW BERLIN-MARATHON 2023: The Finisher Magazine
What was that BMW BERLIN-MARATHON like? September 24th will go down in history as one of the greatest festive days in running: Even before the first starting shot was fired, a record number of 47,912 entries from 156 nations had been allocated. And that is just the marathon runners. Of these, 43,010 reached the finish line at the Brandenburg Gate. This is the second highest number of finishers in the history of the race. Tigst Assefa runs into completely new dimensions with a world record. Eliud Kipchoge wins for the fifth time. Amanal Petros pulverises the German record. And Domenika Mayer becomes the second-best German of all time. In this digital finisher magazine we have compiled all the stories and the best photos from the 49th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON for you. We hope you enjoy reading, looking at the photos and reminiscing!
What was that BMW BERLIN-MARATHON like? September 24th will go down in history as one of the greatest festive days in running: Even before the first starting shot was fired, a record number of 47,912 entries from 156 nations had been allocated. And that is just the marathon runners. Of these, 43,010 reached the finish line at the Brandenburg Gate. This is the second highest number of finishers in the history of the race. Tigst Assefa runs into completely new dimensions with a world record. Eliud Kipchoge wins for the fifth time. Amanal Petros pulverises the German record. And Domenika Mayer becomes the second-best German of all time. In this digital finisher magazine we have compiled all the stories and the best photos from the 49th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON for you. We hope you enjoy reading, looking at the photos and reminiscing!
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Eliud Kipchoge<br />
Eliud Kipchoge is now the sole record winner of the <strong>BMW</strong><br />
<strong>BERLIN</strong>-<strong>MARATHON</strong>. With five wins in Berlin, Eliud Kipchoge<br />
now has one more than Ethiopia‘s Haile Gebrselassie, who<br />
set world records in Berlin in 2007 and 2008 and also<br />
won in 2006 and 2009.<br />
Eliud Kipchoge did not quite<br />
manage to set a world<br />
record this time. But the Kenyan<br />
achieved an absolute<br />
top time of 2:02:42 hours and<br />
is sure that this performance<br />
will be enough to be nominated<br />
for next year‘s Olympic<br />
Games despite the extremely<br />
strong competition in Kenya.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next, probably last, very<br />
big career goal of 38-year-old<br />
Eliud Kipchoge is to become<br />
the first runner in the history<br />
of the sport to win the marathon<br />
for the third time at the<br />
Olympic Games in Paris in<br />
2024.<br />
Text: Jörg Wenig<br />
„I am absolutely confident<br />
about the Paris 2024 Olympic<br />
Games,“ said Eliud Kipchoge,<br />
who won Olympic<br />
marathon gold in both 2016<br />
and 2021. Twice in his career<br />
he set a world record over<br />
the 42.195km: in 2018 he ran<br />
2:01:39 in Berlin, four years<br />
later he improved the time in<br />
the German capital to 2:01:09.<br />
In a non-record-breaking race<br />
in Vienna in 2019, he became<br />
the first and only runner to<br />
break the two-hour barrier<br />
(1:59:40.2). Of 21 marathon<br />
races he has competed in since<br />
2013, the Kenyan has only<br />
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