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Kenya's Daniel Wanjiru held off a late charge from Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele to win the London Marathon on Sunday in two hours, five minutes, 48 seconds.
His triumph completed the double for Kenya after Mary Keitany sealed her third London title in a women-only world record of 2:17.01, beating Britain's Paula Radcliffe's previous best by 41 seconds.
The London Marathon's top three Daniel Wanjiru, centre, Kenenisa Bekele, left, and Bedan Karoki. Photo: AP
Radcliffe still holds the overall record of 2:15.25, which she set in a mixed gender race at the London Marathon in 2003 when she used male runners to help set the pace.
The IAAF recognises two marathon world records for women, one for "mixed gender" and the other for "women only".
Bekele, 34, a three-time Olympic champion on the track, had been hoping to break Dennis Kimetto's men's world record of 2:02.57 and asked pacemakers to deliver him to the halfway mark in 61.30.
They arrived 10 seconds slower - still on world-record pace - but Bekele then fell away as his leg muscles tightened up under the strain, leaving Wanjiru, fellow Kenyans Bedan Karoki and Abel Kirui and Ethiopia's Feyisa Lilesa to form a four-man lead group.
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However, Bekele staged a recovery and was only a handful of seconds adrift of the head of the race when Wanjiru split the lead quartet with an acceleration in the 21st mile.
Bekele overtook Lilesa, Kirui and Karoki but could not catch Wanjiru, who won by nine seconds in his first appearance at the London Marathon.
Kenya's Daniel Wanjiru crosses the finish line to win the London Marathon. Photo: AP
The women's race was far less competitive, after Keitany made an electric start and distanced all of her rivals by mile three.
She reached 10 miles one minute ahead of Radcliffe's overall world record, and although that pace proved unsustainable, she managed to stay comfortably ahead of the women's only record.