Nairobi — Kenya’s Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge leaves for Berlin on Tuesday, with his sights trained on running his best race yet in the German capital on Sunday. The 33-year-old, widely seen as the greatest marathon runner of the modern era, has won almost every major marathon on the calendar, but the world record has eluded him. He was nevertheless cagey about his ambitions regarding the world record, currently held by compatriot Dennis Kimetto, of 2:02:57 — recorded in Berlin in September 2014. “I am in good shape and feeling good. My training has gone on well. I just want to run my personal best, which stands at 2:03:05. If a world record also happens, that will be good enough,” he told Reuters from his Eldoret training ground, 350km northwest of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday. “I am not thinking about the world record. My eyes are on a personal best,” he said. Kipchoge, who also won the world 5,000m title in Paris in 2003, clocked his best marathon time in ...
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