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| Full name | Sabastian Kimaru Sawe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 March 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Long-distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sabastian Kimaru Sawe (born 16 March 1996) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He finished seventh in the senior men's race at the 2023 World Cross Country Championships. [1] [2]
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In September 2022, Sawe set a Kenyan national record in the one hour run at the Memorial Van Damme with a distance of 21,250 metres, narrowly missing the world record. [3]
In March 2022, he set a course record at the Rome-Ostia Half Marathon in a time of 58:02 (a non-record eligible course). [4] He set a then half marathon best of 58:58 from his win at the 2022 Bahrain Royal Night Half Marathon. [5] In December 2023, he won the 15 kilometres road race Montferland Run held in 's-Heerenberg with a time of 42:35. In September 2024, he won the Copenhagen Half Marathon in a new personal best of 58:05.
On 1 December 2024, he won the Valencia Marathon in a world-leading time of 2:02:05. [6] On 27 April 2025 he won the London Marathon in a leading time of 2:02:27. [7]
On 21 September 2025 he won the Berlin Marathon in 2:02:16.
