Kenya’s world record holder Sawe withdraws from Berlin Marathon

An undisclosed wounded has forced Sebastian Sawe to retreat from this month’s Berlin Marathon, helium confirmed.

World grounds holder Sebastian Sawe, the archetypal antheral to interruption the mythical two-hour obstruction successful marathons, has pulled retired of this month’s Berlin Marathon due to the fact that of injury, helium announced.

The Berlin race, which volition instrumentality spot connected September 27, was owed to beryllium Sawe’s archetypal outing since April erstwhile helium broke the two-hour obstruction with a tally of 1:59:30 to triumph the London Marathon.

“It is with a dense bosom that I indispensable pass you that I americium forced to retreat from the Berlin Marathon owed to injury,” the 31-year-old Kenyan wrote connected Instagram connected Thursday, but did not specify the quality of his injury.

“I had been looking guardant to achieving thing peculiar connected the streets of Berlin.”

The precise level people has made Berlin a favourite for imaginable records.

Sawe won the 2025 variation successful Berlin with a clip of 2:02:16 contempt the vigor and humidity and the information helium recovered himself unsocial astatine the beforehand without a pacemaker from the 24th kilometre onward.

His satellite grounds could beryllium nether menace connected December 6, with Ethiopian runner Yomif Kejelcha acceptable to vie successful the Valencia Marathon, which is besides known arsenic a precise accelerated course.

Kejelcha was the 2nd antheral to tally a marathon successful little than 2 hours, finishing 11 seconds down Sawe successful London, and connected Sunday broke the satellite half-marathon grounds successful 56:51.

Upon his instrumentality from his record-breaking contention successful London, Sawe received a hero’s welcome location successful Kenya, with fans thronging the airdrome successful Nairobi and the country’s president giving him currency and a car.