Boston Marathon officials have announced that they will ask the IAAF to have Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai’s fastest-ever marathon effort run on Monday sanctioned as a world record.

The move comes even though IAAF rules prevent any Boston Marathon effort being declared a world record because the course is technically downhill and offers the chance of tailwinds providing a boost to runners.

Mutai’s epic run of two hours, three minutes and two seconds would, if sanctioned, shatter the world record of 2:03:59 by Haile Gebrselassie in 2008 at Berlin.

Officials of the 115-year-old race claim their course is not faster or easier than any other layout.

But for record runs, the IAAF has regulations against downhill courses and point-to-point layouts such as the famed Boston run, instead sanctioning looped courses where any wind advantage would be negated.

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