Super shoes and perfect conditions - how Sabastian Sawe broke the two-hour mark at the London Marathon

There’s a saying about London buses which can be adapted for the 2026 London Marathon and the sub-two-hour holy grail: you wait ages for one and then two come along at once.Nearly seven years have passed since Eliud Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna, Austria, at INEOS’ carefully curated 1:59 Challenge. The wait for an equivalent performance in record-legal conditions, while always a case of when and not if, had been getting tantalisingly longer.Advertisement