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Haile Gebrselassie
Haile Gebrselassie set world records in the marathon multiple times during the mid-to-late 2000s, primarily at the Berlin Marathon, and his transition from track running, where he'd already won multiple Olympic gold medals at 10,000 meters, to marathon dominance reflected an unusually successful late-career distance shift. His combination of Olympic gold medals on the track and his subsequent marathon world records gave Gebrselassie one of the most complete distance-running résumés in history, spanning both track and road racing at the sport's highest level across nearly two decades. Gebrselassie's rivalry with fellow Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, both on the track and later in marathon competition, reflected Ethiopia's sustained dominance of world distance running across successive generations of elite competitors. His combination of Olympic track gold medals and multiple marathon world records has made Gebrselassie one of the most complete and statistically dominant distance runners in the history of the sport, spanning both track and road racing disciplines.
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Eliud Kipchoge
Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to run a marathon distance in under two hours, completing the specially organized INEOS 1:59 Challenge in Vienna in 2019, though the run's use of rotating pacers and other conditions meant it wasn't recognized as an official world record. His official marathon world record, set at the Berlin Marathon, along with his Olympic gold medals in the marathon at both the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, established Kipchoge as the most statistically dominant marathon runner of his generation across both record-setting time trials and championship racing. His famously disciplined, monk-like training philosophy and personal motto "no human is limited" reflected a broader mental approach that Kipchoge has credited as central to his sustained excellence across more than a decade at the sport's highest level. His combination of the historic sub-two-hour marathon run and his sustained dominance across official world records and Olympic competition has made Kipchoge the runner most universally regarded as the greatest marathoner in the sport's history.
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