Eliud Kipchoge Wants to Win Third Straight Olympic Gold in Paris 2024

• Eliud Kipchoge is looking to win his third straight Olympic gold medal in the marathon next year in Paris, France
• The Kenyan legend finished 6th in his latest marathon, the Boston marathon
• The 38-year-old won the marathon event at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics

Eliud Kipchoge has already cemented his status as the greatest marathon runner of all time. The Kenyan icon is now setting his sights on a third straight gold medal in the marathon in the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

Kipchoge is coming off a disappointing Boston Marathon, where he finished 6th, just the third time in his outstanding career that he failed to win a marathon he was competing in.

It was the 38-year-old's worst performance since he finished 9th at the 2020 London Marathon. In Boston, he crossed the finish line with a time of 2:09:23. He set a new world record (2:01:09) in the marathon last September in Berlin, per Boston.com.

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Kipchoge won Olympic marathon gold medals in 2016 and 2020. If he wins in 2024, he will match Ethiopia’s Abebe Bikila (1960, 1964) and Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany (1976, 1980).

Kipchoge on his next goals

Winning a third consecutive gold would surely make the Kenyan the greatest runner in history. He will add that to the nine marathon majors titles.

“The priority now is to focus on the Olympics and win a third time. The other (challenges) will come later,” he said, via Daily Nation.

Kipchoge won his first major crown in Paris in 2003 at 18. He beat Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco and Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele in the 5000m race.

He still does not understand what happened in Boston but played down the idea that the hilly terrain in Boston affected him.

“I’m trying to forget what has happened in Boston. It’s caught in my mind… but I believe that what has passed has passed...It is not really a concern, but I respect everybody’s thoughts,” he said. “I think it was a bad day and every day is a different day. I’m looking forward for next year.”

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Omanyala retains national crown

Sports Brief earlier reported on Africa's 100m record holder, Ferdinand Omanyala winning the Kenyan national athletics championships.

It was his 3rd straight national crown and he said that he's focusing on the World Athletics championships in Budapest Hungary in August.

The 27-year-old clocked 9.96 seconds to storm to victory, his seventh sub-10 race this season.