Race distance42,195 m
14,065Diving boards
17,581Corn stalk heights
26.2 miles; standardized since the 1908 London Olympics
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Marathon World Record
42.195 km in under two hours, almost/Sports
The official men's marathon world record is 2:00:35, set by Kelvin Kiptum at the 2023 Chicago Marathon. Eliud Kipchoge broke the two-hour barrier in 2019 with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna, but that effort used rotating pace-setters and is not recognized as an official record. Either way, these athletes sustain a pace of roughly 3 minutes per kilometer for over two hours, which most people cannot maintain for a single kilometer.
Measurements
Official world record time7,235 s
3.2 millionthsQueen Elizabeth II reigns
1.34Soccer matches
2:00:35; Kelvin Kiptum, Chicago 2023
Average speed5.83 m/s
76.7Galapagos tortoises
2.2 tenthsFalling cats
761 millionthsSpace Station orbits
~21.0 km/h sustained for over 2 hours
Approximate energy expenditure11.7 million J
842 quadrillionthsUS annual grids
2,796Food calories
1.2 hundredthsLightning bolts
~2,800 kcal burned during a marathon for an elite runner
Sub-two-hour exhibition time7,180 s
3.99Pizza deliveries
14,360Sneeze durations
1:59:40; Kipchoge, INEOS 1:59 Challenge, Vienna 2019 (unofficial)