EP89 | Sabastian Sawe Smashes The World Record in London
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Only one place to start, on Sunday, Sebastian Sawe produced a performance that will be talked about until the end of time, becoming the first man to ever run a sub-2 hour Marathon in a competitive race.
We have reaction and analysis from an historic day in London.
On this episode of Marathon Talk:
- 00:00 - Intro
- 00:49 - We discuss the historic performance from Sabastian Sawe at the 2026 TCS London Marathon
- 29:13- Danny Coyle, COO at Abbott World Marathon Majors joins us to give his sights into the day from the grandstand.
- 39:09 - Sean Ingle offers his thoughts on what Sawe's performance means for the wider sport of marathon running.
- 59:46 - We have a quick look back at the 2026 Boston Marathon
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| 0:00.0 | Marathon Talk, powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to episode 89 of Marathon Talk, brought to you by Abbott World Marathon Majors. |
| 0:17.0 | On this week's show, there is only one thing for us to talk about. |
| 0:22.3 | History in the making. |
| 0:24.7 | Under two hours, nobody has ever done this. |
| 0:27.7 | They said it couldn't be done. |
| 0:30.0 | Sebastian Saway is going to break the two hour mark. |
| 0:34.1 | He's going to win the London Marathon in incredible style and historic performance |
| 0:40.3 | 1.5930 absolutely incredible. I've never seen anything like that. What a finish. |
| 0:47.3 | On Sunday, Sebastian Sawway did what many considered to be the impossible. He won the TCS London Marathon with a |
| 0:57.4 | finished time of 15930, becoming the first man in history to record a sub two-hour marathon in a competitive |
| 1:09.4 | road race. |
| 1:21.0 | Oh, Dina, Dina, Dina. We normally have a little preamble at this point. |
| 1:28.5 | But all I've seen and all anybody wants to talk about is Sunday's TCS London Marathon. |
| 1:30.0 | I mean, what an epic. |
| 1:31.6 | We'll get into it more in the show. |
| 1:33.8 | Firstly, everything all right? |
| 1:34.4 | Have you recovered? |
| 1:35.8 | Yes. |
| 1:41.5 | I mean, I'm still on a high from that London Marathon watching it from across the pond. |
| 1:43.1 | But take our word for it. |
| 1:45.5 | Listeners, Martin and I are doing just fine, |
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