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World marathon record holder Kipchoge arrives home after running marathon in under two hours

World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge with Kenya Airways' crew [photo courtesy]

World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge has arrived back in Kenya, four days after he became the first man to run a marathon in under two hours on a specially prepared course in a Vienna park.

The 34-year-old, who was flown out of the country on October 7 in a chartered plane to Austria, made a low key return in the county on Wednesday at 6:30am aboard flight KQ 117 from Amsterdam.

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