Sabastian Sawe makes history at the London Marathon as the first person to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race.
        • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          5 days ago

          How does that happen? Wouldnt the 1st place person get the world record since they won??

          How can the winner of the race have a worse time than someone who didnt get first place/win the race?

          • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOPEnglish
            8·
            5 days ago

            The first three runners were all faster than the previous world record.
            So the third place finisher broke the previous world record, but the other two in front of him broke it even harder.

            • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
              22·
              4 days ago

              But how could he have made history if the other front runners already smashed that? This seems a little weird phrasing