Gilbert Yegon
Gilbert Yegon (born January 26, 1988 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in road running.
In his first international season in 2009, he was twelfth in the Berlin half marathon in 1:01:26 h. On his debut over the 42.195 km distance , he surprisingly won the Amsterdam Marathon in 2:06:18 hours, breaking the course record set by Haile Gebrselassie four years earlier.
Web links
- Gilbert Yegon in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Gilbert Yegon ( October 9, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ) on the Volare Sports website
Footnotes
- ↑ IAAF: Another sizzling debut - 2:06:18 by Yegon in Amsterdam to break Gebrselassie's course record ( Memento of 26 October 2009 at the Internet Archive ). October 18, 2009
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| SURNAME | Yegon, Gilbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1988 |