Kipchoge wins World Sport Star of the Year 2019

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Marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge has been voted BBC Sports Personality’s World Sport Star of the Year.
Kipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours in October.
The Kenyan, 35, completed 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria.
Six months before his feat, Kipchoge won the London Marathon for a fourth time.
Kipchoge, who won Olympic gold at Rio 2016, broke his own London Marathon record – set in 2016 – by 28 seconds.

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