'Absolutely incredible!' - Sawe breaks sub 2-hour marathon world record in London
Sabastian Sawe has always had a propensity to surprise.
Having never competed on the road, the Kenyan began the 2022 Seville half marathon as a pacemaker, proceeded to drop everybody within the first 10km, and carried on to claim victory in a course record time.
Running the second-fastest marathon debut in history in Valencia in 2024, Sawe again hinted at his potential.
That time of two hours two minutes five seconds was only 12 seconds slower than the late Kelvin Kiptum's first marathon two years earlier, before Kiptum went on to break the world record in Chicago in 2023.
