Kenyan runner, 50, smashes 35-year-old marathon record

What BBN said about it

1. 

   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Frankfurt, a fifty-year-old Kenyan named Mark Kiptoo ran a marathon in two hours, fifteen minutes, twenty-four seconds, in the rain.

2. 

   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat broke the over-fifty world record by more than four minutes, and the old mark was thirty-five years old, set in Durban in nineteen ninety-one.

3. 

   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirty-five years with no challenger. That's the longest anyone has gone without a reply.

4. 

   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorMarathon Handbook reports he finished thirteenth overall, nineteen seconds behind two men from Germany and Denmark.

5. 

   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirteenth. In a world record.

6. 

   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorYes. A month earlier he set the over-fifty half marathon record at one hour, three minutes, fifty-seven seconds.

7. 

   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThis is a pattern, and a pattern is a policy.

8. 

   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo he's dropping singles ahead of the album. That's a proper rollout.

9. 

   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHe won this same race in twenty fourteen, and made his debut there in twenty thirteen in two oh six sixteen.

10. 

    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt was his fifth Frankfurt.

11. 

    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFive seasons, and the finale keeps getting renewed. Nobody's cancelling this guy.

12. 

    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe previous record holder has been unavailable for comment since nineteen ninety-one. I'd call that a verdict: a clean, convincing record.

13. 

    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThirteenth place, a world record, and he was still beaten by two men who were nineteen seconds ahead of him.