Lawrence Cherono

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Lawrence Cherono athletics

20170409 Lawrence Cherono finishes as a tweede bij de Marathon Rotterdam.jpg
Lawrence Cherono
at the 2017 Rotterdam Marathon

nation KenyaKenya Kenya
birthday 7th August 1988 (age 32)
place of birth Kenya
Career
Best performance 2:04:06 h (marathon)
status active
last change: October 31, 2018

Lawrence Cherono (born August 7, 1988 ) is a Kenyan marathon runner .

career

In 2015 he won the Seville Marathon in 2:09:39 h at its premiere . This was followed by a second place in the Lanzhou Marathon and a seventh place in the Shanghai Marathon .

The following year he finished second in the Hong Kong Marathon and won the Prague Marathon in 2:07:24 hours. In the fall he finished second in the Hengshui Marathon and improved Jimmy Muindi's twelve-year-old course record by more than a minute and a half to 2:09:39 hours in the Honolulu Marathon .

In 2017 he finished second in the Rotterdam Marathon with a time of 2:06:21 h before setting new course records in each of his victories in Amsterdam (2:05:09 h) and Honolulu (2:08:27 h) .

At London Marathon 2018 Cherono seventh. The 30-year-old successfully defended his title at the Amsterdam Marathon in October and improved both the course record and his personal best with 2:04:06 hours.

In 2019, Cherono won the Boston Marathon in 2:07:57 hours. It was his first win in a World Marathon Majors race . The second followed in the same year at the Chicago Marathon , where he prevailed in 2:05:45 h.

Sporting successes

marathon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Oct 13, 2019 1 Chicago marathon United StatesUnited States Chicago 2:05:45
April 15, 2019 1 Boston marathon United StatesUnited States Boston 2:07:57
Oct 21, 2018 1 Amsterdam marathon NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam 2:04:06 Victory with a new course record and personal best marathon time
Dec 10, 2017 1 Honolulu marathon United StatesUnited States Honolulu 2:08:26
Oct 15, 2017 1 Amsterdam marathon NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam 2:05:09 Victory with a new course record and personal best marathon time
0Apr 9, 2017 2 Rotterdam marathon NetherlandsNetherlands Rotterdam 2:06:21 17 seconds behind his compatriot Marius Kimutai Kipserem
Dec 11, 2016 1 Honolulu marathon United StatesUnited States Honolulu 2:09:39
0May 8, 2016 1 Prague marathon Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague 2:07:24
Feb 22, 2015 1 Seville marathon SpainSpain Seville 2:09:39

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honolulu Marathon on December 11, 2016: Lawrence Cherono runs a great course record . In: keep on running. December 11, 2016
  2. ↑ Marathon Running Form Analysis - Lawrence Cherono 2016 Honolulu (video analysis)
  3. ^ IAAF: Cherono breaks course record at Amsterdam Marathon . 15th October 2017
  4. ↑ Jörg Wenig: Lawrence Cherono breaks course record in Amsterdam . In: Leichtathletik.de. 15th October 2017
  5. ^ Johanna Gretschel: Course Records Smashed At Honolulu Marathon . In: FloTrack. December 10, 2017
  6. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Kosgei smashes marathon world record in Chicago. In: iaaf.org. October 13, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cherono, Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan marathon runner
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1988