Record No.
MRB-2026-005954
Marathon World Record (2008 Berlin)
Sports
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Record Holder
Haile Gebrselassie
Ethiopia
Category
Sports
Country
Ethiopia
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Achievement Date
28 September 2008
Verification Status
Reference
Record Description
Ethiopian runner Haile Gebrselassie set the marathon world record at the 2008 Berlin Marathon, finishing in 2:03:59 and becoming the first man to run a marathon in under 2 hours 4 minutes. The mark stood as the official world record for several years before later being broken by other elite marathoners.
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