The jury in command of awarding the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, unanimously, to the Kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge has valued the determine of the athlete “as a reference in world athletics and because the greatest marathon runner of all time”.
He acknowledges that he has been a two-time Olympic champion and holder of the world report for the check, and for that reason Kipchoge “is the one man in historical past who has managed to lose two hours within the 42.195 kilometers, a mark not formally acknowledged.”
“In addition to his successes as an athlete, he carries out vital social work by means of the muse that bears his title, which is devoted to facilitating entry to early childhood training and defending the atmosphere,” the jury stated.
The jury for the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports was made up of Abel Antón Rodrigo, Teresa Bernadas Porto, Gemma Castaño Vinyals, Cristina Cubero Alcalde, Joaquín Folch-Rusiñol Corachán, Juan Ignacio Gallardo Tomé, Patricia García Rodríguez, Vicente Jiménez Navas , Feliciano López Díaz-Guerra, Lluís Mascaró Serra, Guadalupe Porras Ayuso, Julián Redondo Pérez, Samuel Sánchez González, chaired by Teresa Perales Fernández and Theresa Zabell Lucas appearing as secretary.