Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge won the London Marathon in 2:03:04, missing the world record for 26.2 miles by seven seconds.
Countryman Dennis Kimetto‘s record of 2:02:57 was set at the 2014 Berlin Marathon. Kipchoge’s is No. 2 all time.
Kipchoge prevailed by 46 seconds over countryman Stanley Biwott, the 2015 New York City Marathon champion.
Kipchoge won his fifth straight marathon and second straight London title, all but sewing up a place on the Kenyan Olympic team of three men’s marathoners. The team hasn’t been announced yet, and there was no defined qualifying criteria.