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“I am the happiest man in the world to be the first human to run under two hours and I can tell people that no human is limited.”
Source: After running the first marathon under two hours, INEOS 1:59 Challenge, Vienna, 12 October 2019
Context Run in a special event with rotating pacesetters, so the time did not count as an official world record.
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