I was born in 1984 in Kapsisiywa, a small village in Kenya, where I grew up running to school every day. That simple routine became the foundation of my life in athletics. I first made my name on the track, winning the 5000m world title in 2003 and earning Olympic medals in 2004 and 2008. Over time, I discovered that the marathon was my true calling.

Through discipline and consistency, I became one of the greatest marathoners in history, winning two Olympic marathon gold medals and setting the official world record of 2:01:09 in Berlin in 2022. My proudest moment came in 2019, when I ran 1:59:40 in Vienna and became the first person to complete a marathon distance in under two hours, even though it wasn’t an official record, it showed the world that no human limit is fixed.

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