Kipchoge was placed at the bottom of the formation with two pacemakers running behind him. įor the Ineos challenge, Kipchoge was joined by forty-one pacemakers, who rotated twice each lap and ran in a V-formation, rather than the diamond formation chosen for the previous attempt. Instead of three participants, only Kipchoge targeted the record, having already set the marathon world record of 2:01:39 at the Berlin Marathon on 16 September 2018. This marked a shift away from the original format of Breaking2. On, the 65th anniversary of the four-minute mile, multinational chemicals company Ineos announced that Kipchoge would attempt again to achieve a sub-two-hour marathon run, in an event sponsored by the company. When the event was finally held on at Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Milan, Kipchoge finished first before the other runners, Zersenay Tadese and Lelisa Desisa, but fell short of the two-hour goal by 25 seconds. Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya, the world record holder in the men's marathon and the current defending Olympic marathon champion was one of the runners on that team.
In 2016, Nike organized the Breaking2 project to train a team of runners for an attempt at completing a marathon distance in under two hours, a benchmark previously considered impossible to achieve.
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