25 Years Later, Ndereba's Chicago World Record Revisited

Coverage this week revisited the 2001 Chicago Marathon after a long-lost VHS broadcast surfaced on YouTube. A first report from LetsRun co-founder Robert Johnson described being hired to protect and guide Catherine Ndereba to a 2:18:47 world record 25 years ago, and said two Olympic champions had plenty to say about his running form. A later report from the same outlet repeated the 2:18:47 women's world record and Johnson's pacing role, and added that in the men's race rabbit Ben Kimondiu stunned Paul Tergat to win. Both reports agree on Ndereba's time and Johnson's involvement; the later one adds the men's result. No other reports on this event have been supplied, so further details of the race, the pacing arrangement, and the identities of the two Olympic champions are not available in the coverage provided.