Geoffrey Kirui

Geoffrey Kirui
Geoffrey Kirui at the 2017 Boston Marathon
Full name	Geoffrey Kipkorir Kirui
nation	Kenya
birthday	16th February 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Kenya
Career
discipline	Long distance running
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior World Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships gold London 2017 marathon  Junior World Championships bronze Barcelona 2012 10,000 m
last change: August 11, 2017

Geoffrey Kipkorir Kirui (born February 16, 1993 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .

Career

Kirui had his first international success at the 2011 Junior African Athletics Championships in Gaborone . There he won the gold medal over 10,000 meters . The following year won the bronze medal over 10,000 meters at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona . At the World Cross Country Championships 2013 in Bydgoszcz he finished 15th. In 2015 he finished fifth at the African Games in Brazzaville over 10,000 meters . In 2017 he won the Boston Marathon in 2:09:37 h and at the World Championships in London the gold medal in the marathon in 2:08:27 h. At the 2018 Boston Marathon , he was unable to defend his title and took second place. In the same year he was sixth in the Chicago Marathon in 2:06:45 h.

Personal best

• 3000 m : 7: 42.26 min, May 10, 2013 in Doha
• 5000 m: 13: 16.68 min, June 1, 2013 in Eugene
• 10,000 m: 26: 55.73 min, September 16, 2011 in Brussels
• Half marathon : 59:38 min, November 29, 2015 in New Delhi
• Marathon : 2:06:27 h, October 16, 2016 in Amsterdam

Web links

• Geoffrey Kirui in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Result of the Boston Marathon 2017 on baa.org (accessed August 11, 2017)
2. ↑ Kenyan Kirui wins marathon gold on rp-online.de (accessed on August 11, 2017)
3. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Farah and Kosgei notch convincing Chicago Marathon victories. In: iaaf.org. October 7, 2018, accessed January 6, 2019 .