Sabastian Sawe breaks two-hour barrier to make history in London Marathon

• Kenyan wins men’s race in 1hr 59min 30sec

• Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa defends her women’s title

He came. He Sawe. He conquered. Not so very long ago, the idea of anyone running an official marathon in under two hours lurked only in the realms of the fantastical and theoretical: part holy grail, part scientific curiosity.

But over the course of one hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds of a tumult­uous spring day in London, Sabastian Sawe turned it into a brain-spinning reality. Imagine running 100 metres in under 17 seconds – and then ­keeping that pace up for another 26 and a bit miles (42km). That is what the 31-year-old Kenyan did.

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