Kenyan runner Sabastian Sawe and Ethiopian runner Jacob Kiplimo broke the two-hour barrier at the London Marathon, breaking the 26.2-mile marathon. Sawe won the race in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds, beating Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha, who finished in 1:59.41, and Jacob Kipchoge of Uganda came in second with a time of 2:00.28, which was seven seconds better than the previous men’Sawe's previous world record held by Kenyan runner Kelvin Kiptum. The first sub-2:30 marathon came in 1925 and the 2:15 barrier was broken 38 years after that. The marathon's distance is the same as the run a Greek soldier made from Marathon to Athens to announce a military victory in ancient times.