{"id":154408,"date":"2026-08-28T05:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/154408\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:08:30","slug":"world-record-holder-sawe-withdraws-from-berlin-marathon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/154408\/","title":{"rendered":"World record holder Sawe withdraws from Berlin Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/\" class=\"m-breadcrumb__list__item__link a-svg a-svg--picto-home\" aria-label=\"Back to homepage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        Back to homepage<br \/>\n                    <\/a><br \/>\n                    \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/live-news\/\" class=\"m-breadcrumb__list__item__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        Live news<br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"t-content__chapo\">\n            Paris (France) (AFP) \u2013             World record holder Sabastian Sawe, the first man to break the mythical two-hour barrier, has pulled out of this month&#8217;s Berlin Marathon because of injury, the Kenyan announced on Thursday.         <\/p>\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\">Issued on: 27\/08\/2026 &#8211; 11:52<\/p>\n<p>    1 min    Reading time\n<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/62ead9d0e331716261fcae4f4e989992534575aa.jpg\"   width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Sabastian Sawe broke the marathon world record in London in April with a time of 1 hour 59 minutes 30 seconds\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"a-img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Sabastian Sawe broke the marathon world record in London in April with a time of 1 hour 59 minutes 30 seconds        \u00a9 JUSTIN TALLIS \/ AFP\/File                                        <\/p>\n<p>Berlin, which will take place on September 27, was due to be Sawe&#8217;s first outing since April when he broke the two-hour barrier with a run of 1 hour 59 minutes 30 seconds to win the London Marathon. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that I am forced to withdraw from the Berlin Marathon due to injury,&#8221; the 31-year-old wrote on Instagram without specifying the nature of his injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had been looking forward to achieving something special on the streets of Berlin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The very flat course has made Berlin a favourite for potential records. <\/p>\n<p>Sawe won the 2025 edition in 2:02:16 despite the heat and humidity and the fact he found himself alone at the front without a pacemaker from the 24th kilometre onward. <\/p>\n<p>His world record could be under threat on December 6, with Ethiopian runner Yomif Kejelcha set to compete in the Valencia Marathon, which is also known as a very fast course. <\/p>\n<p>Kejelcha was the second man to run a marathon in under two hours, finishing 11 seconds behind Sawe in London, and on Sunday broke the world half-marathon record in 56:51.<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-copyright\">\u00a9 2026 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back to homepage \/ Live news Paris (France) (AFP) \u2013 World record holder Sabastian Sawe, the first man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190],"class_list":["post-154408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-germany"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117171408658195845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}