Luke Kibet Bowen

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Luke Kibet 2009 London Marathon.jpg
Kibet at the 2009 London Marathon
Full name Luke Kibet Bowen
nation KenyaKenya Kenya
birthday 12th April 1983 (age 37)
place of birth Kenya
size 160 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
discipline Long distance running
Trainer Volker Wagner
status active
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
gold Osaka 2007 marathon
last change: September 17, 2018

Luke Kibet Bowen (born April 12, 1983 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in marathons .

Career

He grew up with his grandmother in Moiben , near Eldoret , where famous athletes such as Paul Tergat , Moses Tanui and Joshua Chelanga trained on his doorstep. The television broadcast of the 1996 Olympic Games made him want to be an obstacle runner, but it turned out that his talent lay in long-distance running. Kibet moved to Eldoret and trained at Moses Tanuis Camp in Capetagat .

In 2004 he was hired to set the pace for the Enschede Marathon . He ran through the race and came in second. Shortly afterwards he came second in Paul Malakwen Kosgei's world record run at the 25 km from Berlin in 1:12:52 h, a time that has only since been exceeded by Haile Gebrselassie in a run that was not recognized as a world record. In the same year he was also runner- up in the Frankfurt Marathon .

In 2005 he won the 25 km from Berlin. That same year he finished third in the Eindhoven Marathon in his personal best of 2:08:52 and won the Taipei International Marathon . In both races he took the same place the following year.

In 2007 he first won the Vienna City Marathon and celebrated his greatest success to date by winning the marathon at the World Championships in Osaka . In extreme weather (28–33 ° C heat and 70–80% humidity) he pulled away at kilometer 31 and ran a lead of over a minute over Mubarak Hassan Shami and Viktor Röthlin to the finish . His winning time of 2:15:59 h is the slowest that has ever been run at world championships. He is the second Kenyan marathon world champion after Douglas Wakiihuri in 1987. In the same year he won the Great South Run over 10  miles in 47:31 minutes.

During the riots in Kenya in 2007/2008 , he was injured in the head with a stone throw by a mob who shortly afterwards killed Kibet's mentor Lucas Sang when he tried to come to the aid of a victim of violence. The wound had to be sutured in the hospital and Kibet had to stop exercising for three weeks. In February 2008, he narrowly escaped an ambush with four other athletes in the vicinity of Naivasha while driving from Eldoret to Nairobi .

The strain made itself felt at the London Marathon , where Kibet only finished eleventh in 2:12:25 h. He was nominated as a substitute for the marathon of the Olympic Games in Beijing and stepped in for the injured Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot at short notice . There he worked as a pacemaker for the eventual winner Samuel Kamau Wanjiru , but had to stop the race after 25 kilometers. At the end of the season he set a course record in the Singapore Marathon with 2:13:03 h.

The following year he first won the half marathon of Lagos , but then rose on the due complaints Achilles tendon of the London Marathon. After receiving treatment from Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt in Germany , he started again in Singapore. Although his Achilles tendon was still causing him problems, he managed to defend his title in 31 ° C heat and 77% humidity and improve the course record to 2:11:25 h.

Luke Kibet is employed by the Kenyan prison service. He is married and has two children. Volker Wagner temporarily acted as his trainer and manager .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Die Welt : Kenya: Murder and manslaughter instead of training and competition . January 15, 2008
  2. ^ IAAF: World champion Luke Kibet offers a beacon of hope for troubled Kenya ( Memento of May 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). February 12, 2008
  3. ^ IAAF: After tumultuous year, Kibet looking to end '08 on a high in Singapore ( Memento of December 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). December 6, 2008
  4. ↑ IAAF: Kibet suffers another attack ( Memento of 17 February 2008 at the Internet Archive ). February 13, 2008
  5. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : In the Olympic year: Kenya's sport in fear of death . February 15, 2008
  6. ^ IAAF: Kibet cracks course record at Singapore Marathon ( Memento from December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). December 7, 2008
  7. ^ IAAF: Kibet Ready to turn up the heat - Singapore Marathon preview ( Memento from December 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). 4th December 2009
  8. ^ IAAF: Injured Kibet shatters Singapore record ( Memento December 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). December 6, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Kibet Bowen, Luke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kibet, Luke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan marathon runner
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1983