Berlin Marathon 2022: World Record Holder Eliud Kipchoge Confirms Participation

• Eliud Kipchoge will compete in his fifth Berlin Marathon later this year, hoping to match Haile Gebresellasie's record of four victories
• The Olympic Champion will be using this race as one of the events to maintain fitness as he continues to prepare for the Paris Olympics
• He will compete against Ethiopian Guye Adola, who won last year's event in Kipchoge's absence

Eliud Kipchoge has confirmed that he will be making a return to the Berlin Marathon this year. The road race will take place on September 25th.

Kipchoge will be making a return to the city, where he set the marathon record in 2018 after running a time of 2:01.39.

In a video posted by Kipchoge on Twitter, the 37-year-old explained that Berlin had a special space in his heart. Athletics Weekly reports that Kipchoge will be targeting a fourth victory in Berlin after triumphs in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

Franck Kessie outlines ambitions after completing move to Barcelona from Serie A side AC Milan

Football

A win will take him level with Ethiopian legend Haile Gebresellasie who holds the record for most wins in Berlin.

He intends to remain in top shape ahead of the Paris Olympics in 2024, where he will be chasing a third consecutive Olympic title.

The Olympic champion will take on the defending champion Guye Adola. Kipchoge did not participate in last year's marathon as he was still recovering from the rigours of the Tokyo Olympics.

Adola, won't be a pushover, as Kipchoge witnessed firsthand in 2017. The Ethiopian almost beat Kipchoge in his first-ever marathon race.

Africa's new 10,000 metres champion reveals she did not have shoes prior to her victory

Previously, Sports Brief had reported that just a few days before the Africa Senior Athletics Championships in Mauritius, Caroline Nyaga was just another person. Relatively unknown in Athletics circles.

Origi joins Italian champions Milan after Liverpool exit

Football

In fact, much of the focus was on Africa's fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala who was keen on bagging three medals in Africa's top athletics meet. He ended up winning two, with a memorable race in the 100 metres to dethrone Akani Simbine from South Africa.

Nyaga was not even supposed to make it to Mauritius after she failed to advance from the National Police trials. But one competitor withdrew, making way for her to go ahead and make write her own story in Mauritius.