Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe shattered one of athletics’ most elusive barriers on Sunday, becoming the first man to run a marathon in under two hours in an official race as he stormed to victory at the London Marathon in one hour 59 minutes and 30 seconds.
After years of global obsession, lab‑backed experiments and near‑misses, the marathon’s ultimate barrier finally fell as Sawe obliterated the world record previously held by the
