Victor Kiplagat of Uganda created history by winning the men’s marathon world championship. At the 2023 World Athletics Championships, the 23-year-old bravely maintained his lead to win his nation’s second-ever world marathon championship in 2 hours, 8 minutes, and 53 seconds, exactly 10 years after compatriot Stephen Kiprotich won the event in Moscow in 2013.
Israel Maru Teferi finished in second place in Ethiopia’s Leul Gebresilase in 2:09:19 after surviving a tumble after the 30 km mark. On what is anticipated to be the hottest day of the year in the Hungarian capital, Kiplangat added a global marathon gold to the Commonwealth Games crown he won in Birmingham last year.