【原】挑战人类极限，马拉松选手再创新纪录。英语读头条（第600期）

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Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei Breaks Marathon World Record

肯尼亚选手布里吉德科斯吉打破马拉松世界纪录

By Matthew Futterman & Talya Minsberg/ October 13, 2019

翻译：Ray︱校对：Sally

A record that seemed untouchable for years fell in 2:14:04. The run whacked 81 seconds off the previous women’s mark.

一项多年来似乎无法打破的记录以2:14:04被打破。这一跑比从前的女子记录快了81秒。

CHICAGO — This city lived up to its billing as host of America’s fastest major marathon on Sunday as Brigid Kosgei of Kenya set a women’s world record.

芝加哥 - 这座城市可以成为名副其实的主办过成绩最好的大型马拉松比赛的美国城市了，周日来自肯尼亚的布里吉德科斯吉创造了一项女子世界纪录。

A day after Eliud Kipchoge broke the two-hour barrier for the 26.2-mile distance, albeit in an event that did not count as a world record, his countrywoman Kosgei shattered Paula Radcliffe’s world marathon record, which no woman had come close to in the past 16 years.

在埃利德·基普霍格打破了26.2英里跑的两小时屏障后的一天 - 尽管这一项目不算世界纪录 - 他的女同胞科斯吉打破了保拉·拉德克里夫的世界马拉松纪录，而这一纪录在过去16年中没有一位女选手接近过。

The two achievements made the weekend one of the most memorable in the modern history of long-distance running, with Kenya asserting its supremacy as the heartbeat of the sport, in case there was any doubt.

这两项成绩使本周末成为现代长跑史上最令人难忘的一个周末，毫无疑问，肯尼亚将其作为这项运动的中坚力量，维护了至高无上的地位。

Kosgei said she had Kipchoge on her mind ever since she saw that he ran a marathon in Vienna on Saturday morning in the once-inconceivable time of 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds.

科斯吉说，自从她看到基普霍格周六早上在维也纳参加马拉松比赛后，她一直不能忘怀，那是一个不可思议的时间，1小时59分40秒。

“I kept saying, ‘Tomorrow is my day,’” she said. “I wanted to be the second Kipchoge — the Kipchoge for women. I focused on that.”

“我不停地说，‘明天是我的日子，’”她说。“我想成为第二个基普霍格——女基普霍格。我会全力以赴。”

Kosgei even made a last-minute decision to switch her shoes to match the ones Kipchoge ran in, the Nike ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT%. She had planned on wearing an earlier version of the Nike Vaporfly shoe.

科斯吉甚至在最后一刻决定换双和基普霍格一样的鞋，the Nike ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT%。她原计划是穿老款的耐克。

Kosgei, who also won in Chicago last year, ran 2:14:04 on Sunday. Radcliffe ran 2:15:25 at the 2003 London Marathon, and the record had long seemed untouchable. For years, she was the only woman to have run a marathon in under 2 hours 17 minutes. Not only did Kosgei run under 2:15, she was close to breaking 2:14. And at age 25, she could have a long career in front of her.

科斯吉，去年也在芝加哥获得了冠军，本周日跑出了2:14:04。拉德克利夫在2003年伦敦马拉松比赛中以2:15:25的成绩结束比赛，之后这项纪录似乎长期以来无法撼动。多年来，科斯吉是唯一一个在2小时17分钟内跑完马拉松的女性。她不仅跑在2:15分钟以内，而且接近突破2:14分钟。她只有25岁，今后的职业生涯还长着呢。

“I was not expecting this,” Kosgei said of the world record. “I was expecting to run 2:16 or 2:17. It’s amazing to run 2:14, but the world record was in my head. When I started the race, I was thinking I need 2:15 for Paula’s record.”

科斯吉在谈到世界纪录时说：“我没想到会这样。我本来想跑2:16或2:17分。跑2小时14分真是太美妙了，但世界纪录就在我脑海里。当我一开始比赛，我就想我需要跑2小时15分来刷新保拉的纪录。”

Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier

埃利德·基普霍格突破两小时马拉松屏障

By Andrew Keh / Oct. 12, 2019

In Vienna, the Kenyan achieved a milestone once believed to be unattainable. But his time, 1:59:40, will not be recognized as a world record.

在维也纳，肯尼亚人实现了一个曾经被认为无法实现的里程碑。但他的时间，1:59:40，将不会被承认为世界纪录。

VIENNA — On a misty Saturday morning in Vienna, on a course specially chosen for speed, in an athletic spectacle of historic proportions, Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya ran 26.2 miles in a once-inconceivable time of 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds.

维也纳 —在维也纳一个雾蒙蒙的周六早晨，在一个专为速度而选定的赛道上，在这个具有历史意义的体育盛会上，肯尼亚选手埃利德·基普霍格以1小时59分40秒的速度跑完了26.2英里。

In becoming the first person to cover the marathon distance in less than two hours, Kipchoge, 34, achieved a sports milestone granted almost mythical status in the running world, breaking through a temporal barrier that many would have deemed untouchable only a few years ago.

34岁的基普霍格成为第一个在不到两个小时的时间里跑完马拉松的人，他在长跑界取得了几乎神话般的地位，打破了许多人在几年前还认为是不可触及的、暂时性的屏障。

Kipchoge, an eight-time major marathon winner and three-time Olympic medalist, pounded his chest twice as he crossed the finish line in Vienna’s leafy Prater Park, where the majority of the run had unfolded on a long straightaway of recently paved road, with roundabouts on either end.

在维也纳绿树成荫的普拉特公园，八届马拉松大赛冠军、三届奥运会奖牌得主基普霍格在越过终点线时，两度拍打自己的胸口，这次，大部分的跑步都是在最近铺好的一条直直的长路上展开的，路的两端都设有环岛。