On April 26th, a nearly impossible goal in sports was finally achieved, officially, for the very first time. The 2-hour barrier for a marathon was broken.
 　Sabastian Sawe of Kenya won the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds. He broke the previous men’s world record by an astonishing 65 seconds. Sawe, who won London last year too, said it was a “day to remember for me.” Just 11 seconds further back was Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha, who — running in his first-ever marathon — also covered the 42.2-kilometer course in under 2 hours.
 　Breaking two hours in a marathon has been a long time coming. Technically, it had been done before. However, when Eliud Kipchoge, a famous Kenyan long-distance runner, ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, it was on an unofficial 9.6-kilometer circuit. Official marathon records require runners to race on a standard point-to-point road course. So, Kipchoge’s time didn’t go in the record book.

　4月26 日，體育賽事中一個幾乎不可能的目標終於首次正式達成。馬拉松的2 小時障礙被突破了。
　肯亞選手薩威在倫敦馬拉松賽中，以1 小時59 分30 秒的成績贏得冠軍，打破了之前的男子世界紀錄，驚人的將紀錄縮短了65 秒。去年也在倫敦馬拉松賽奪冠的薩威表示，「對我來說，這是難忘的一天」。比薩威慢11秒抵達終點的亞軍，是衣索比亞的選手卡加爾查。這是他第一次參加馬拉松比賽，也在2 小時內跑完了42.2 公里的賽程。
　人們一直都期待馬拉松比賽能突破兩小時大關；嚴格說來，以前也有人做到過。然而，2019 年肯亞長跑名將基普柯吉在維也納跑出1小時59分40秒時，是在非正式的9.6公里的環形賽道進行，官方認證的馬拉松紀錄則要求跑者必須在標準的點對點的道路賽道競技。因此，基普柯吉的成績沒有被列入紀錄。