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The first legal sub-2-hour marathon belongs to a runner from Kenya's Rift Valley. His grandmother filled a mud-walled house with one promise before she died. On Sunday in London, he kept it.
What was also remarkable was that Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha and Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo, who finished second and third at Sunday's London Marathon respectively, also finished the race inside the previous world record of 2:00:35.