How is Eliud Kipchoge only 37 years old ?

There are thousands of threads about this, maybe you would find an answer in them

One way is to be born in 1984. Normally you would be 37 in 2022 then...

I think that is the normal way of becoming 37. Don't know of other ways.

People's apperance and how the skin looks like, being skinny by build and due to training, having shaved the hair, one should not judge age only on apperance. Since he runs still at his peak, definately his internal system works way better than anyone at 49-51.

^ And having no body fat ages you like a prune.

Conventional wisdom on Letsrun is that Eliud's PR are really masters records. They actually think a 50-year-old ran 2:02:40 yesterday. No Nobel Prize candidates in that bunch.

Because he’s not

This is literally 1984.

When he won the World Champs 5000m in 2003, he was supposedly 18. The same year, my college teammate who went to school with him growing up said he was two grades ahead of him. This guy was a college sophomore at the time.

I am turning 40 in May and look younger than Kipchoge. You have to think about a few things. Kenyans typically do not keep track of age so he could be in his 40's doubtful but possible. Also another thing to consider years ago athletes hit a certain age and thought it was the end of there athletic career this is no longer the case. You see this time and time again with brutal sports such as UFC and BKFC both have a number of fighters well into there 40's and still crushing it and competing for world titles. Modern medicine technology are pushing the athletes capabilities out 5, 10 and even 15 years longer then previous generations careers lasted. Think of it this way at 32 years of age I had a blocked LAD in the 1960's I would have been put on nitro and blood thinners told not to do anything crazy and prayed I did not drop dead. This generation they stented it open I was told to keep with a solid workout regime and it has zero effect on my left expectancy. Approaching masters I can still run under 39 for a 10k and under 19 for a 5k not anywhere close to previous bests but still can get after it. So in regards to Kipchoge technology and modern medicine are prime examples of why he may be older and can still compete at a prime level.

So,

How old was he then?

How is it that he is still able to run that well at (60)?

Even trolling requires some intelligence.

That's what's really great about Kipchoge,all the fat lazy yanks said for years he was age doping and was never 18 when he was trouncing people,yet now how can they say he is not 37 as that would mean he's really in his 40's and that would be more impressive than his 18yr old self.

I'm curious about your LAD blockage---what age were you at diagnosis and do you have any idea what caused it? How did they come to find it (what symptoms did you have or what tipped off the doctor)? Besides continued hard training, what did your doctor tell you to do to avoid a recurrence?

Because he’s not 37. He is at least 45, he defies logic but his lifestyle really is as basic as it seems. His performances are more impressive with his actual age - but it has gone too far to go back to the truth.

his late career success sure does complicate this. everybody seemed so certain he was older when he won that 5000 title. of course, we do often see athletes with huge performances around 18 years of age. Not just africans, but look at what jakob ingebrigtsen was doing at that age, and I don't think anybody questions his birth certificate.

So because one thing is hard to believe (that he looks old or that it‘s unlikely he could be so good so young), you are willing to concede an even more outlandish idea (that he‘s running 2:02 well into his 40s), all to maintain your erroneous, initial belief. Sounds about right.

That‘d be a WR by five minutes, btw.

why do folks always assume older, could he potentially be younger maybe 34?

I spoke to a Kenyan runner this afternoon who knows Kipchoge well, and he told me that the latter is 44 or 45 years old.

This Kenyan runner, who used to be a pacemaker on the Chinese circuit, told me that Kenyan runners usually deliberately falsify their age to appear younger because that will be more attractive to potential agents and agents.

Flashback to 2003 when Kipchoge raced the 5000 m in the world championships in Paris. It might be a good idea to take stock of the photographs of that race to ascertain whether Kipchoge was 18 years old at the time.

i’m not judging here but one thing which I’m very impressed about with Kipchoge is that his form looks the same now as it did back in 2003 when he raced at 5000 m. He has still preserved that springy stride.

By the way, I’m not pointing a finger at Kipchoge or any other Kenyan runners who “falsify” their age, either deliberately or unknowingly. I think we have to realize that “age falsification” in Kenya is not regarded as unethical but simply a pragmatic necessity in many cases.

Was he wearing Alphafly's? Looked like it.

He legitimately is the fastest masters runner the world has ever seen.

Grant will rewrite the record books though, you'll see.

so that means he won the 5000m WC as a 13yo?