Patrick Makau Breaks WR in Berlin Marathon 2011

Kenya's Patrick Makau has won the 2011 edition of Berlin Marathon and in the process breaking Ethiopian Haile Gebreselassie's world record. Makau set the new record of 2:03:38 which is 22 seconds faster than the previous WR. Meanwhile pacemaker Stephen Chemlany completed the race second in 2:07:55. It was an all Kenyan affair at the podium with a 1-2-3-4 sweep.

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Kenya's Patrick Makau breaks marathon world record in Berlin
Before Sunday's Berlin marathon, Patrick Makau talked openly about his desire to take the world record back to Kenya. In the event, he delivered spectacularly, not only breaking Haile Gebrselassie's mark by 21 seconds, but also breaking Gebrselassie himself with an exhilarating burst away from the leading group around the 15-mile mark. "In the morning my body was not good but after I started the race, it started reacting very well. I started thinking about the record," Makau said, and from the earliest split times it was clear that something special was in the offing on the same wide, flat, famously fast course on which Ethiopia's Gebrselassie set the previous record three years ago. read on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/sep/25/patrick-makau-scott-overall-marathon-berlin