This was Eluid Kipchoge's first ever biig win on a world stage. 15 years later, tomorrow, he is going to shatter the world record in marathon at Berlin. Officially, the king of marathon!
@@carlmorrow1600 Richard Limo - World 5000m Champion at Edmonton in 2001 and Tadesse - World Cross Country Champion 2007 and 5 x World Half Marathon Champion from 2006 - 2012!
Remember the race very well and an equally good one in the Athens Olympics a year later where the Moroccan prevailed there having already won the 1500m there.
The foundation of Kipchoge is deep and disciplined. The man has grown from strength to strength for nearly two decades. Well done Kip, you make Kenya proud. For the race, it was an African affair
This is the race I love to watch. You never get to know who wins it until the last second, no matter who you are cheering for you will have your a heart attack until they finish it.
Eliud Kipchoge was truly destined for greatness...winning this race when only aged 18 against great athletes like Hicham El Guerroug and Kenenisa Bekele was incredible and marked the beginning of his real climb to the top that has culminated in him being the greatest marathoner ever and the first to clock under 2hrs.
The #3 guy, Bekele, at age 41 ran a 2:04 marathon this Sunday in Valencia beating among others the current simultaneous 5K/10K WR holder, an honor Bekele himself held for like 15 years until 2020.
@@panama8009 hilarous people tend to get offended by mo farah, maybe jealous? olympics double gold for 5k and 10k twice and several championships golds are maybe a joke for these fanatics haha
Hicham El Guerrouj is a legend best of all times record holder of 3 distances till now unbelievable and one of two in history who got 2 gold medals in same Olympic Games can’t talk about a certain distances without mentioning his name Amazing 🤩
That slow motion replay of kipchoges run down the home straight really shows what potential he had to be a distance running great,, at 18 yrs but going hard against two greats of distance running, that sprint was a massive burn up and he was just willing his legs in the last few meters with grit and determination,, all hallmarks of his great mental strength which has been such an asset in his marathon career,, one of the all time great 5000m races and a deserving champion 👏
When I watched this race live, I could not believe Kipchopge was only 18. Yet here we are, an Olympic champion 18 years later. What I also failed to see was that Kipchoge had a clipped marathoner's stride while running sub-13:00 pace. Considering the competition, Paris 2003 5k is the greatest footrace ever filmed.
Kipchoge has a real chance of producing a fairy tale ending in Paris. Paris was the location where he burst onto the scene and defeated both prime Bekele and prime El G. Will Paris be once more be the scene, where he exits the stage in a glorious fashion?
That race was the perfect lesson for Hicham to win the olympic medal a year later As 1500m runner attacking earlier in a 5000m race wasn't the good strategy
I' m a fan of all of these guys, 3 champs, 3 WR holders in 1500m, 5K/10K and Marathon. I have a theory watching them biomechanically: Bekele is a beast but he needed more abdominals to be faster in the last 80mt. He seems to be stronger to pull back terrain than rise up knees. He's not a 100m sprinter ok, but at that level you can't consider that high speed is needed to get first at photofinish... All greats btw.
15 ans plus tard, en 2018 Eliud Kipchoge est le détenteur de la meilleure performance mondiale de tous les temps sur marathon. Incroyable mais vrai ! Les perfs ne veulent plus rien dire mais c'est le spectacle qui prime ! 2H01 c'est humainement impossible même pour un super kenyan à la génétique parfaite disons...
It is an incredible phenomenon to watch these brave runners showing their great potential. I didn't see Kenenisa losing a gold. Now I know. Very amazing how Kenenisa became world record holder in both 5k & 10k from 2004 till 2020 & winning the gold medal in both the 5k & 10k at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Hats off for the braves!
KIPCHOGE..a hard-working Young man who broke the Ethiopian pride on track and has since then proved God can raise the humble over the high and mighty by reigning supreme over Bekele on the roads. Nobody imagined in this race Kip could beat the Bekele leave alone the Moroccan. Live long Kip. Abandance of blessings. Enjoy your hard earned livelihood! Bekele, you too has made EA proud and the unrelenting Gebreselasie. Kenya, Ethiopia, you bring the best out of each other and we shall be forever, the EA brothers NOT RIVALS.
Damn it, kipchoge running 21yrs down the line , congrats man. Waiting for Paris Olympic marathon race (10.08.2024). Wish you well kipchoge in Paris Olympics 2024
I love seeing Kipchoge disapproving commentator who usually have preformed judgement on some of the athletes. Kipchoge wins against all odds and against commentator's profiling of their favourite athlete whom they waste time giving them a "face" the whole race Kudos Kenyan boy, Kipchoge
certainly one the all-time great 5000 meters. Bekele had to go around the outside in the stretch on the last lap and that cost him maybe a second or two. El Guerrouj was a sportsman of the highest caliber, offering his hand in congratulations to the young Eliud Kipchoge. Who would have predicted that Kipchoge and Bekele would eventually be the greatest marathon runners of the present time?
Honestly I think my favorite part of this race is that El Guerrouj looks super tall compared to the rest, he is actually only 5'9 and the race are like 5'6
They're training is almost impossible to do for a normal person. They grew into consistent work of pure effortful long runs and painful speed intervals🔥
In my opinion the greatest 5k of all time. The three fastest distance runners of all time in one race.
The 2008 Beijing Olympics is my favorite both the womens and mens
The 5000 in 2004 was even better gotta see that one unforgettable with same great runners but Oh My God what a speed last 800 m was unbelievable!🤩
This was Eluid Kipchoge's first ever biig win on a world stage. 15 years later, tomorrow, he is going to shatter the world record in marathon at Berlin. Officially, the king of marathon!
Job done mate
you did foresee it.
Clearly you’re some sort of prophet 😉
NO it was not. He had won the same race some years before this.
Your prophesy came true
And Eliud Kipchoge is still racing 20 years later. Now, he's the greatest marathoner of all time. What a career he's had
Damn. An 18 year old Eliud Kipchoge outkicking 2 of the greatest of all time, before becoming one himself. What an awesome race.
That was an amazing race! 20 years later and Kipchoge is still a BADASS!!!!
a race with 5 world champions! Jesus Christ, the level of talent. watching this made my lungs hurt
Who are the other 2?
Limo and Tadesse.
@@tommytempo1 in what events?
@@carlmorrow1600 Richard Limo - World 5000m Champion at Edmonton in 2001 and Tadesse - World Cross Country Champion 2007 and 5 x World Half Marathon Champion from 2006 - 2012!
The best comment on this race bar none!
Eliud Kipchoge, Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele. Three of the greatest of all time.
i wonder how Mo would have fared against those 3.....not well i would imagine
Remember the race very well and an equally good one in the Athens Olympics a year later where the Moroccan prevailed there having already won the 1500m there.
Mo is a sit-n-kicker. Can't handle fast paces like this.
Also, all three ran faster in the race than Mo's all time personal best.
The days when long distance track men was worth watching. Now it’s all sit and kickers.
This race had the greatest middle distance runner, distance runner, half marathon runner & greatest marathon runner !
The Athens Olympic race was so far better !!!
It's funny you say that. This was almost the exact same race as the Athens race. Great races nonetheless.
Literally every WR, for Olympic Events, from 1500m-Marathon
Yes. Won’t happen again!!
@@ethanennis8 except the half marathon
The foundation of Kipchoge is deep and disciplined. The man has grown from strength to strength for nearly two decades. Well done Kip, you make Kenya proud. For the race, it was an African affair
This is the race I love to watch. You never get to know who wins it until the last second, no matter who you are cheering for you will have your a heart attack until they finish it.
Eliud Kipchoge was truly destined for greatness...winning this race when only aged 18 against great athletes like Hicham El Guerroug and Kenenisa Bekele was incredible and marked the beginning of his real climb to the top that has culminated in him being the greatest marathoner ever and the first to clock under 2hrs.
just one thing...18 in africa is 23 in fact lmao
Who could have imagined back then that Kipchoge would be the GOAT in the marathon 15 years later.
I did. He is a fighter, he ran sub 2hrs Marathon.
THE GOAT!
Samir Lakhouiri not quite he ran 2 hours 25 seconds, FANTASTIC!!!!!!!
top 3 all wolrd record holders
Just wait for Bekele's comeback
This race was a work of art
Gotta see the 2004 Athens one with same great runners but higher speed especially in last 800 m unbelievable 🤩
Thanks for this. Incredible race with so many champions
One year later and Hicham El Guerrouj beats both Kipchoge and Bekele at the same distance in the Athens Olympics 👊🏼🏃🏽
Saad El And only the second person ever to complete the 1500 and 5000 double in the Olympics.
Doesn’t matter, Africa wins in this race!
@@onyx2k206 very true brother 💪💪
17 years later.. bekele and kipchoge ran 2 best marathon of all times
@@onyx2k206 Agreed! Top 4 athletes in this race were all Africans and all ran under 13:00 minutes... incredible
The #3 guy, Bekele, at age 41 ran a 2:04 marathon this Sunday in Valencia beating among others the current simultaneous 5K/10K WR holder, an honor Bekele himself held for like 15 years until 2020.
الزمن الذهبي لتخصص 1500 و 5000 متر على مر العصور...
Dang, E.G.’s got class. Always the first to congratulate his opponents. Wonderful example in victory and defeat.
Can we take into consideration that Eluid Kipchoge was 18 years old!! Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele are AMAZING
They ran a 1:52 last 800. Kipchope at 18 sensational and no wonder he would become the greatest marathoner of all time.
28 may be not 18
@@dr.mohamedaitnouh4501 nah 18
@@dr.mohamedaitnouh4501 he was 18
@@dr.mohamedaitnouh4501 he was 18
are you sayin he ran sub 2h marathon at 45 😂@@dr.mohamedaitnouh4501
Wow! That's the best 5k I've ever seen!
Watch 2004 in olympic games
@@حلميأحمد-ض9ص this one is better even though hicham lost
John Kibowen of Kenya ran 12:54 and still came fourth. Perhaps the greatest 4th place finish in 5000m in World Championship history.
Yeah top 4 all under 13 minutes in a race is incredible
Agreed
Mo Farah would get dusted..
@@panama8009 hilarous people tend to get offended by mo farah, maybe jealous? olympics double gold for 5k and 10k twice and several championships golds are maybe a joke for these fanatics haha
15 years later, marathon world record also his. What a man!!!
What a beast El Guerrouj. 🇲🇦
Specially the 2004 one 🥇🥇
Hicham El garouj is the best runner at 1500 m and comes second at 5000m that is very impressive.realy awsome
Hicham El Guerrouj is a legend best of all times record holder of 3 distances till now unbelievable and one of two in history who got 2 gold medals in same Olympic Games can’t talk about a certain distances without mentioning his name Amazing 🤩
Doesn't matter who wins, i can see bekele running for hour
So graceful so smooth
Kicking his own butts on each stride
😂😂😂
Kipchoge at 18 shows you how talented he is
Some of the greatest names in the sport in this race.....epic
That slow motion replay of kipchoges run down the home straight really shows what potential he had to be a distance running great,, at 18 yrs but going hard against two greats of distance running, that sprint was a massive burn up and he was just willing his legs in the last few meters with grit and determination,, all hallmarks of his great mental strength which has been such an asset in his marathon career,, one of the all time great 5000m races and a deserving champion 👏
Africans doing well 💕💕💕love from Ghana 🇬🇭
In a few hours, GOAT Eliud Kipchoge is gonna achieve running's equivalent of landing on the moon.
Mike Mwangi 1:59:40:2
Was right
One of track's greatest ever races!
Let's not forget that it was Hisham's first participation in the 5000 meter race❤❤
The commentators then make it even more beautiful to watch..wow! what a race!
When I watched this race live, I could not believe Kipchopge was only 18. Yet here we are, an Olympic champion 18 years later. What I also failed to see was that Kipchoge had a clipped marathoner's stride while running sub-13:00 pace. Considering the competition, Paris 2003 5k is the greatest footrace ever filmed.
When all legends are in same race .♥️♥️
What an amazing group of champions. Just being in the last place of this race would be an honor.
Now Kipchoge has a world record like El Guerrouj and Bekele!
Eric Perez no
khafier France ummm, well, he does....
Yeah buy time people know the reality of some final races they watch. 5000m Olympics was the 5000 race of the centry
Now Kipchoge is the greatest Marathon runner of all time with consistent wins in a row
and he destroys the marathon record today, amazing
The best middle distance runner of all time 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦
people keep talking about mo farah, my friends mo farah wouldnt make the top 5 in that era...
Truth has been spoken
Probably not top 10 either. These guys r almost all 12:50 or less as PB
It’s the way Mo Farah raced. He was very tactical on the track, he worried about placing, not time.
FACTS
4th place for him
A phalanx of African runners they are unbelievable
3 of the greatest distance runners of all time in the same race
Kenenisa’s Berlin marathon 2019 performance reminded me of this...
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Undoubtedly the greatest junior track performance of all time! Kipchoge was 18 and beats all the legends!
The greatest miler, 5000/10000m runner, and the greatest marathoner 🤯
Kenenisa made the race what an athlete
Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco the Best rénine in 1500 m in the word .
Kipchoge has a real chance of producing a fairy tale ending in Paris. Paris was the location where he burst onto the scene and defeated both prime Bekele and prime El G. Will Paris be once more be the scene, where he exits the stage in a glorious fashion?
To be the Junior and win this must have felt fantastic! Kudos to Kipchoge to win this in such company.
That race was the perfect lesson for Hicham to win the olympic medal a year later
As 1500m runner attacking earlier in a 5000m race wasn't the good strategy
that was Kipchoge in Paris in 2003 2 decades later kipchoge is in 2024 Paris Olympics.....what a historic moment ....
20 years later.. Eliud Kipchoge in an defining Olympic Marathon 2024
Over 1 million views - wow!
tommytempo1 congratulations you deserve it dude
Beaucoup $$$$$$ for sure!!
No money made!
Probably ,the best 5000 meters every.what a faaaantastic emotional final from three phenomenal athletes
I' m a fan of all of these guys, 3 champs, 3 WR holders in 1500m, 5K/10K and Marathon.
I have a theory watching them biomechanically: Bekele is a beast but he needed more abdominals to be faster in the last 80mt. He seems to be stronger to pull back terrain than rise up knees. He's not a 100m sprinter ok, but at that level you can't consider that high speed is needed to get first at photofinish... All greats btw.
Hot damn.. That was a heck of a race... I had goosebumps that whole last lap..
The one and only hicham el guerrouj . what a field though with all those champions , a race to be remembered
This 3 guys ! Was the Best Runners for me Of All Time.
Are we not forgetting the great Haile Gebreselassie?
احسن عداء في العالم
That was one of the all time great races !
what a race! really impressive
All 3 are such great sportsmen. What a race this was
Three genius of the athletism in the same race... WOW!
سباق الوطنية في القلب
One of the extreme rare races that K.B the legendary athlete lost.
Wow! What a race ! The champion !
15 ans plus tard, en 2018 Eliud Kipchoge est le détenteur de la meilleure performance mondiale de tous les temps sur marathon. Incroyable mais vrai ! Les perfs ne veulent plus rien dire mais c'est le spectacle qui prime ! 2H01 c'est humainement impossible même pour un super kenyan à la génétique parfaite disons...
Three GOATS
here
1- KEN 2-MOR 3-ETH
& in 2004
1-MOR 2-ETH 3-KEN
16 years later and Kipchoge becomes the best of the best...
تحية لجميع ابطال المغرب 🇲🇦✌
Fantastic race!!And really brave of the Moraccan runner to take the race on..
A year after , in 2004 Olympics , same 3 were there but in defrent order, the Moroccan got the gold
It is an incredible phenomenon to watch these brave runners showing their great potential.
I didn't see Kenenisa losing a gold. Now I know.
Very amazing how Kenenisa became world record holder in both 5k & 10k from 2004 till 2020 & winning the gold medal in both the 5k & 10k at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Hats off for the braves!
KIPCHOGE..a hard-working Young man who broke the Ethiopian pride on track and has since then proved God can raise the humble over the high and mighty by reigning supreme over Bekele on the roads. Nobody imagined in this race Kip could beat the Bekele leave alone the Moroccan. Live long Kip. Abandance of blessings. Enjoy your hard earned livelihood! Bekele, you too has made EA proud and the unrelenting Gebreselasie. Kenya, Ethiopia, you bring the best out of each other and we shall be forever, the EA brothers NOT RIVALS.
Merci beaucoup hicham pour les moments de bonheur normal Maroc1😀
Oui c'est vrai, il nous à fait vibrer depuis 1996 mais à 2004 j'avais 7ans 🥇😀👻
During the past 3 decades greatness has always been present on the track. (at every level)
Damn it, kipchoge running 21yrs down the line , congrats man. Waiting for Paris Olympic marathon race (10.08.2024). Wish you well kipchoge in Paris Olympics 2024
I love seeing Kipchoge disapproving commentator who usually have preformed judgement on some of the athletes. Kipchoge wins against all odds and against commentator's profiling of their favourite athlete whom they waste time giving them a "face" the whole race
Kudos Kenyan boy, Kipchoge
21 years later Kipchoge and Bekele face to face again in their last Olympic marathon, at the end of their amazing careers.
2004 the olympique champion of 5000 m and 1500 the king Forever Hicham ELguerrouj 🏆🎊🎉
10:34 dude he looked so happy and excited to shake Hicham's hand lmao
Because Hicham is a legend. Kipchoge was still a child when El G was breaking WRs. He probably idolized him.
What a beautiful race. Love it!
Kipchoge won the race, but Bekele made the race
Espectacular, fabulosa carrera con los mejores del mundo y un remate increíble de Eliud Kipchoge.
Eliud Kipchoge !!!!! ahora es el mejor en Marathon ...INCREIBLE !!!!
certainly one the all-time great 5000 meters. Bekele had to go around the outside in the stretch on the last lap and that cost him maybe a second or two. El Guerrouj was a sportsman of the highest caliber, offering his hand in congratulations to the young Eliud Kipchoge. Who would have predicted that Kipchoge and Bekele would eventually be the greatest marathon runners of the present time?
men that felt great to watch men a decade and a half later men..from kenya
What a runner is El guerrouj. Effortless running action .And what a race
ثلاث أساطير ،بيكيلي له رقم 10000 وفاز ببطولة العالم هشام له رقم 1500 وفاز ببطولة العالم ،كبشوك بطل العالم 5000 أي اختصاصه ،هذه ملحمة
After one year hicham el gerrrouj won gold medal Olympic in 1500 and 5k. Best middle distance runner ever! Absolutely Legend hicham el gerrouj
15 years later.
Revisiting this today.. Kipchoge fantastic 🇰🇪
المغاربة و أجرك على الله
What an incredible race! Awesome! Great runners all!
Honestly I think my favorite part of this race is that El Guerrouj looks super tall compared to the rest, he is actually only 5'9 and the race are like 5'6
What a legendary race
kudos to three of them. They're world class.
Over 2 million views!!!
Am watching this in 2019. Eliud Kipchoge has come from far
This race was beautiful how the heck do you run 12:52 for 3.1 miles!!?? Not to mention their first mile was in 4:05 which is insane
They're training is almost impossible to do for a normal person. They grew into consistent work of pure effortful long runs and painful speed intervals🔥
their last one was 4:01!
Try 12:35
4:05 O_O I-
They started running as kids!! Plus Kipchoge lives in Eldoret, a high altitude city!!