In a historically quick marathon, Sabastian Sawe broke the world record and Tigst Assefa lowered her women’s-only world record

The running world is still abuzz ahead of the Jovia Long Island Marathon weekend in Eisenhower Park, one week after Sabastian Sawe of Kenya in the London Marathon became the first person to run a sub-2-hour race.

New marathon world record holder Sabastian Sawe brushed aside suggestions his Adidas "super shoes" amounted to "mechanical doping" on Monday as he basked in the glow of becoming the ​first man to break the two-hour barrier in an official race.

In the late 1980s, a former University of Arizona distance runner became obsessed with trying to understand the limits of human endurance. Armed with a programmable calculator, a yellow legal pad and a background in physiology,

President Ruto gifts him $62,000 and a car after the runner’s aircraft receives a water cannon salute in Nairobi.

Sebastian Sawe made history as the first man to run a sub-two-hour marathon at the London Marathon, receiving a hero's welcome upon his return to Kenya.

Jacob Kiplimo: I don’t fear Sabastian Sawe and a sub 1:58 marathon is now possible - Exclusive: Kiplimo finished third in Sunday’s London Marathon, behind sub-two hour finishers Sabastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha,

The sub-two-hour marathon was once a mythical and impossible barrier. On Sunday, it finally fell. Sebastian Sawe moved through the streets of London in a blur of speed and didn't just break the world record.