Kipchoge, 41, wins again: a course record in Melbourne

The two-time Olympic champion's first marathon win since Berlin 2023.

By SitesNG Sports Desk · 11 October 2026 · 2 min read

Eliud Kipchoge smiling during the Berlin Marathon — Eliud Kipchoge at the 2022 Berlin Marathon (file photo). Photo: Desitlicheresguruweil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The king of the marathon is still winning. Eliud Kipchoge won the Melbourne Marathon on Sunday 11 October 2026 in 2:09:10, two seconds inside the course record, and finished 1 minute 25 seconds clear of Australia's Thomas Do Canto.

It was the Kenyan's first marathon victory since Berlin in 2023. Earlier this year he was 16th in Cape Town in May and 12th in Porto Alegre in July, results that had many asking whether, at 41, his racing days were nearly over.

“I believe that my body is still peaking.”
Eliud Kipchoge, after the race (via Al Jazeera)

Kipchoge is a two-time Olympic marathon champion and the first man to run the distance in under two hours, in a special event in Vienna in 2019.

Reporting by the SitesNG Sports Desk, based on reports from Al Jazeera, Capital FM. Published 11 October 2026 in the African Sports News weekly edition of 15 October 2026.