Dickson Chumba

Dickson Chumba
Dickson Chumba as the winner of the Eindhoven Marathon 2012
Full name	Dickson Kiptolo Chumba
nation	Kenya
birthday	27th October 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Kenya
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	1:01:34 h (half marathon) 2:04:32 h (marathon)
society	Claudio Berardelli
status	active
last change: January 5, 2019

Dickson Kiptolo Chumba (born October 27, 1986 ) is a Kenyan marathon runner .

Career

Dickson Kiptolo Chumba worked as a gardener before starting running training in 2008 under the guidance of Italian coach Claudio Berardelli.

In 2010 he finished second at the Madrid Marathon and the Maratona d'Italia . The following year he won the Rome Marathon and was seventh in the Frankfurt Marathon .

In 2012 he finished second in the Xiamen marathon , ninth in the CPC Loop Den Haag and won the Eindhoven marathon in a new personal best.

On February 23, 2014 he won the Tokyo Marathon in 2:05:42 h, which he was able to win again in 2018. Also in 2014 he won the Chicago Marathon in a personal best of 2:04:32 hours. He achieved another victory on October 11, 2015 at the Chicago Marathon , for which he needed 2:09:25 h.

In February 2018, the 31-year-old won the Tokyo Marathon for the second time after 2014 in 2:05:30 h . He finished third at the Bogotá Half Marathon in late July and failed to finish at the Chicago Marathon in October. In 2019 he finished third in the Tokyo Marathon .

Personal bests

• Half marathon : 1:01:34 h, March 11, 2012, The Hague
• Marathon: 2:04:32 h, October 12, 2014, Chicago

Web links

• Dickson Chumba in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ^ IAAF: Dado takes third straight Rome title as Chumba surprises ( Memento of March 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). March 20, 2011
2. ↑ CHUMBA AND DIBABA CRUISE TO SECOND TOKYO MARATHON TITLES