Geoffrey Kamworor

Geoffrey Kamworor
Geoffrey Kamworor 2018
Full name	Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor
nation	Kenya
birthday	22nd November 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Eldoret ,  Kenya
size	172 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Trainer	Patrick Sang
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Cross Country World Championship 2 × 3 × 1 × Half marathon world championship 4 × 2 × 0 ×
World championships silver Beijing 2015 10,000 m  World Cross Country Championships gold Guiyang 2015 singles silver Guiyang 2015 team gold Kampala 2017 singles silver Kampala 2017 team silver Aarhus 2019 team bronze Aarhus 2019 singles  Half marathon world championships gold Copenhagen 2014 singles silver Copenhagen 2014 team gold Cardiff 2016 singles gold Cardiff 2016 team gold Valencia 2018 singles silver Valencia 2018 team
last change: March 30, 2019

Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor (born November 22, 1992 in Eldoret ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .

Career

At the 2011 Cross Country World Championships , Kamworor won the junior race. Shortly afterwards he won the Berlin half marathon . In autumn he triumphed in the Lille half marathon , served as a pacemaker for the later world record holder Patrick Makau Musyoki in the Berlin marathon and came second in the Delhi half marathon .

In 2012 Kamworor was fourth at the CPC Loop Den Haag and won the World 10K Bangalore . In his debut over the 42.195 km distance, he came third in the Berlin Marathon .

At the RAK Half Marathon 2013, Kamworor as the winner with a time of 58:54 minutes missed Musyoki's course record by just two seconds. A fourth place in the Rotterdam marathon was followed by a victory in the Bogotá half marathon . At the Berlin Marathon he was again third.

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, he won the silver medal over 10,000 meters. In 2016 Kamworor became world champion in the half marathon. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro he could not live up to expectations and only finished eleventh in the 10,000 meter run.

In 2017 he successfully defended his title at the World Cross Country Championships in Kampala . On November 5, 2017, Kamworor won the New York City Marathon in 2:10:53 h. In 2018 he won the Half Marathon World Championships in Valencia for the third time in a row.

The IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2019 , the 26-year-old in March occupied in Aarhus in third place and was vice-champion in the team standings. On September 15, he set a new world record over the half marathon distance at the Copenhagen half marathon with 58:01 minutes. In November he won the New York City Marathon for the second time after 2017 in 2:08:13 h .

Personal bests

• 3000 m : 7: 54.15 min, June 6, 2010, Eurajoki
• 5000 m : 12: 59.98 min, May 28, 2016, Eugene
• 10,000 m : 26: 52.65 min, May 29, 2015, Eugene
• Half marathon : 58:01 min , September 15, 2019, Copenhagen
• Marathon : 2:06:12 h, September 30, 2012, Berlin

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  Third place for Geoffrey Kamworor at the Berlin Marathon 2012

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  Victory at the 2014 Half Marathon World Championships

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  10,000 m, final at the World Championships in Beijing 2015, runner-up behind Mo Farah

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  Victory at the 2018 World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia

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  Geoffrey Kamworor 2018

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  Victory in the New York City Marathon 2019

Web links

Commons : Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Geoffrey Kamworor in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete profile with the Association of Road Racing Statisticians
• Kamworor to train until coronavirus pandemic is over Report by Emmanuel Sabuni on Kamworor's plans in view of the global corona epidemic and the canceled half-marathon world championships, March 27, 2020, accessed: March 29, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Kipsang upsets the odds - Men's Junior Race Report - Punta Umbria 2011 . March 20, 2011
2. ^ IAAF: Teenagers triumph at Berlin Half Marathon . April 3, 2011
3. ^ IAAF: Kipsang and Kiprop lead Kenyan double podium sweep in Bangalore . May 27, 2012
4. ^ IAAF: Kabuu and Kipsang triumph in high-quality races at Ras al-Khaimah Half . February 15, 2013
5. ^ IAAF: Kipsang and Jeptoo win in Bogota . July 28, 2013
6. ↑ Video from the World Championship run 2016 in Cardiff (1:44 h) , from: youtube.com. (English)
7. ↑ Parker Morse: Report: men's 10,000m final - Rio 2016 Olympic Games ( English ) IAAF. August 13, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
8. ↑ Geoffrey Kamworwor Wins Tactical NYC Marathon. Retrieved November 5, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Kenyan Geoffrey Kamworor runs incredible half marathon world record! In: HDsports.de. September 15, 2019, accessed September 15, 2019 . 
10. ^ Cathal Dennehy: Debutante Jepkosgei and Kamworor victorious at New York City Marathon ( English ) IAAF. November 3, 2019. Retrieved November 4, 2019.