Edwin Cheruiyot Soi

Edwin Cheruiyot Soi 2006

Edwin Cheruiyot Soi (born March 3, 1986 in Kericho , Rift Valley Province ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .

Since 2004 he has appeared in international track , cross and road races.

His first major success was winning the 2004 Cursa Bombers . At the 2006 World Cross Country Championships in Fukuoka, his first appearance for Kenya, he finished eighth on the last short distance and won gold with the Kenyan team. In the same year he won the Giro Media Blenio and the 10 km du Conseil Général 13. At the World Athletics Finals , he was second over 3000 and 5000 meters .

The following year he was ninth and again winner with the team at the Cross Country World Championships in Mombasa . At the Giro Media Blenio and at the 10 km du Conseil Général 13 he defended his title, but did not qualify for the World Championships in Osaka . At the world finals, on the other hand, he was in top form, winning both the 3000 and 5000 meters, and at the end of the season he triumphed at the BOclassic .

In 2008 he did not start at the World Cross Country Championships, but at the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon , where he finished fourth over 3000 meters. He managed the hat trick at the Giro Media Blenio, and won the 5000 meters in the Kenyan qualifiers for the Beijing Olympics . Soi and his compatriot Eliud Kipchoge tried to follow Kenenisa Bekele , who stormed away on the last 2000 meters , but had to win silver (Kipchoge) and bronze (Soi.) Behind the Ethiopian, who set an Olympic record with 12: 57.82 minutes ) content. At the World Athletics Finals, Soi won over 5000 meters and came second over 3000 meters. On New Year's Eve he defended his title at the BOclassic.

In 2009 he missed the qualification for the World Championships in Berlin when he was pushed to fourth place in the Kenyan 5000 meter elimination race by the simultaneous Kipchoge. Soi came third at the World Athletics Finals. Then he won the Giro al Sas and for the third time in a row the BOclassic.

In 2010 he qualified with a second place behind Vincent Kipsegechi Yator in the national 5000 meter elimination race for the African Championships in Nairobi . There the long-time leading Yator stumbled 10 meters from the finish line, and Soi took the opportunity and won gold as part of an all-Kenyan podium completed by Yator and Mark Kosgey Kiptoo . A fourth place at the Athletics Continental Cup in Split was followed by another victory at the Giro al Sas.

In 2012 he won bronze over 3000 m at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul . Soi was also in the team of the Kenyan team for the Olympic Games 2012 and finished in London with a 6th place in the preliminary run, in which he narrowly missed the Olympic final with a time of 13: 27.06 min, on the 5000 meters - 18th place overall.

Edwin Cheruiyot Soi is 1.75 m tall and weighs 53 kg.

Best times

1500 m : 3: 40.52 min, October 6, 2013, Fossano
3000 m: 7: 27.55 min, May 6, 2011, Doha
- Hall: 7: 29.94 min, February 12, 2012, Karlsruhe
5000 m: 12: 51.34 min, July 19, 2013, Monaco
10,000 m : 27: 14.83 min, August 25, 2006, Brussels
10 km road race: 27:46 min, May 1, 2006, Marseille