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Kelvin Kiptum

2:00:35 in Chicago, dead four months later at 24: Kelvin Kiptum’s marathon world record Celebrity Buzz 2:00:35 in Chicago, dead four months later at 24: Kelvin Kiptum’s marathon world record Kenyan runner Kelvin Kiptum set the men's marathon world record of 2:00:35 at the Chicago Marathon on 8 October 2023, in only his third marathon. On 11 February 2024, he and his coach Gervais Hakizimana were killed in a car crash in Kenya. He was 24.