by Brett Larner
With his 2:09:54 at Sunday's Ehime MarathonYuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref. Gov't) became the fifteenth runner in history to run sub-2:10 eleven times or more in his career. The achievement puts him in distinguished company, including two marathon world record setters, seven Olympic marathon medalists, seven World Championships marathon medalists, three World Marathon Majors champions and eight winners of the six races now making up the World Marathon Majors.
Kawauchi is one of only three non-African athletes to make the list, one of four on the list without either an Olympic or World Championships medal or a win at one of the Big Six, one of four to have not broken 2:07, and, with a PB of 2:08:14, the only one who has not run sub-2:08. A sub-2:08 PB and a World Championships medal remain the major goals of his career.
Tsegaye Kebede (Ethiopia) - 16 times sub-2:10
PB: 2:04:382013 World Marathon Majors champion1st, 2013 London Marathon1st, 2012 Chicago Marathon1st,…
With his 2:09:54 at Sunday's Ehime MarathonYuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref. Gov't) became the fifteenth runner in history to run sub-2:10 eleven times or more in his career. The achievement puts him in distinguished company, including two marathon world record setters, seven Olympic marathon medalists, seven World Championships marathon medalists, three World Marathon Majors champions and eight winners of the six races now making up the World Marathon Majors.
Kawauchi is one of only three non-African athletes to make the list, one of four on the list without either an Olympic or World Championships medal or a win at one of the Big Six, one of four to have not broken 2:07, and, with a PB of 2:08:14, the only one who has not run sub-2:08. A sub-2:08 PB and a World Championships medal remain the major goals of his career.
Tsegaye Kebede (Ethiopia) - 16 times sub-2:10
PB: 2:04:382013 World Marathon Majors champion1st, 2013 London Marathon1st, 2012 Chicago Marathon1st,…