Kipchoge is 23 According to Time Magazine

So he ran a marathon WR at 42 or he's actually 38...I think he's actually 38

Or he ran a marathon WR at 42.

Why not split the difference?

Date of birth: 1/1/1982
Graduated high school: 6/1/2000 (age 18)
Won Worlds: 8/28/2003 (age 21)
Set latest marathon world record: 9/25/2022 (age 40)

No part of that sounds especially unbelievable to me.

Either way the marathon record is the MASTERS record. Chew on that, all you young pups.

Yeah he graduated in 1999 after winning his first international marathon in Scotland. He only started wearing shoes these last five years (olympic cycle).

He has a rare condition called wundarcild (wonder child). , so each year he grows up he gets younger and he looks older.
I learn some of this stuff in Kenya, Obama was there too.

I think it's twins, four years apart. The older won worlds in 2003, the younger set World record in 2022.

Or uniquely in the history of athletics, he has been abusing EPO for 3 different decades, and EPO will do that for you.

Yes, his wiki says that he graduated from HS in 1999. Since he is born on Nov 4, 1984, he was actually 14 when he graduated HS.

Makes sense.

It’s hardly uncommon to graduate high school at 17 (I did) without skipping any grades. If he graduated in 1999 being 84 born, I’m guessing his “Kaptel Secondary School” was just up to tenth grade which he would have completed at 15, just like I did. Many regions have 11th and 12th in a “junior college” that’s integrated with a four-year college, so he probably just didn’t formally study past tenth grade.

Kenya had an 8-4-4 system when Kipchoge graduated HS. HS went (and still does) go to grade 12.

He was therefore also fast in school. He graduated HS at age 14.

Kipchoge is still 23.

Interestingly, Kaptel HS (where Kipchoge graduated from) is the same HS that Bernard Lagat graduated from. However, Lagat (now 48) graduated 5 years before Kipchoge (in 1994), so they were not there at the same time. Small school (288 students).

I understand that he may not know his exact date of birth, but when he won the U20 World XC champ in 2003, wouldn’t have he known that he graduated HS 4 years before that? … and since he is born in November, wouldn’t have he known that he was one of the oldest in his graduating class ?

If Lagat graduated from the same school 5 years before Kipchoge and is 48...It looks very probable that Kipchoge is 48-5=43 yo.

Also, Kipchoge didn't look 18 in 2003. And he does look 40+ today for sure.

In the middle, in 2012, there is his 2 mile victory against Mo Farah. Love it.

er....shouldn't he be allowed to identify as whatever age he wants ?

Do you really believe he was not abusing EPO in the EPO decade of the 1990s? Come on. 4 decades of EPO abusing. But still not uniquely, since Bekele has done the same.

This makes him the youngest world champion in history at 4 years of old. Look at the footage , he was starting to lose his baby teeth

You like him it seems?

13:13 5k already 22 years ago, still running well, still only 23 years old. Will do well in Brisbane 2032, when still only 24.

Btw, is it possible that you are st*?$%d?

Kipchoge looks like an mid 50er, though Kenyans always look younger. In that case, he's rather 60 something, an extremely fit oldie.