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NAIROBI, Oct. 12-- Sport is about pushing one's body beyond the limit and on Saturday, Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge stepped out to prove to the human race that man is not limited in his INEOS 1:59 Challenge. Kipchoge wrote history in Vienna as the first human to clock a sub two hours marathon. Every detail greatly planned and fulfilled. His time of 1:59:40.2 affirms that with determination, hard work and focus, man can attain any goal he sets out to achieve. Kipchoge ran a consistent pace set by the electric timing car and the pacemakers of 2:50 minutes per kilometer throughout the race with every single kilometer split being between 2:48min/km - 2:52min/km. With the noise levels rising, Kipchoge crossed the line in a history-making time of 1:59:40.2 to become the first human to break the two-hour barrier for the marathon. Kipchoge's incredible achievement emphatically proved his mantra that no human is limited and places him alongside other sporting greats such as Sir Roger Bannister - who ran the first sub-four-minute mile in 1954 - and Usain Bolt who's 100m world record of 9.58 seconds has stood since 2009. "It is a great feeling to make history in the sport after Sir Roger Bannister in 1954. I am the happiest man in the world to be the first human to run under two hours and I can tell people that no human is limited. I expect more people all over the world to run under two hours after today," said Kipchoge on Saturday. | 
