Athletics-Former Olympic champion Kipchoge to run Sydney Marathon

FILE PHOTO: Athletics - Berlin Marathon - Berlin, Germany - September 24, 2023 Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge crosses the finish line to win the Berlin Marathon REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo

(Reuters) - Twice Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge will run the Sydney Marathon in August, he said on Thursday.

The 40-year-old Kenyan, who won back-to-back Olympic titles in 2016 and 2020, became in 2019 the first man to run a marathon in under two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna. That did not count as an official record, however, as standard competition rules were not in place.