Eliud Kiptanui
Eliud Kiptanui (born June 6, 1989 ) is a Kenyan marathon runner .
The fourth of six siblings, he grew up in Kaptagat near Eldoret . He started running at the age of 16, but then had to leave school because his family could no longer afford the school fees. Without belonging to a training group, he was able to assert himself among top runners in a 15 km run at the high altitude of Eldoret in 2008 with a time of 47 minutes.
In 2009 he was hired to set the pace for the 3000 meter run of the Bislett Games and finished in 8: 04.57 minutes.
His breakthrough came in December of the same year, when he won the Safaricom marathon in Kisumu in 2:12:17 h despite difficult external conditions and was almost seven minutes ahead of the runner-up.
He was then signed by the German manager Volker Wagner . Kiptanui was supposed to start at the Vienna City Marathon in 2010 , but the volcanic eruption of Eyjafjallajökull prevented him from arriving by plane in time.
Instead, he entered the Prague Marathon three weeks later , where he improved the course record by more than two minutes to 2:05:39 h. In autumn he finished fifth in the Berlin Marathon in 2:08:05.
In 2015 he finished second there in a personal best of 2:05:21 h. In 2017 he won the Ottawa Marathon .
Personal best
- Half marathon : 1:01:11 min, May 8, 2011, Berlin
- Marathon : 2:05:21 h, September 27, 2015, Berlin
Web links
- Eliud Kiptanui in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Eliud Kiptanui ( Memento from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- After astonishing sub-2: 06 run in Prague, Kiptanui no longer an unknown ( Memento of May 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), article by Pat Butcher on the IAAF website, May 10, 2010
Footnotes
- ↑ Track & Field News: EME News: Results ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . December 8, 2009
- ↑ a b IAAF: Massive breakthrough for Kiptanui - 2:05:39 in Prague ( Memento of May 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). May 9, 2010
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| SURNAME | Kiptanui, Eliud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1989 |