Ondoro Osoro
Ondoro Osoro (born December 3, 1967 ) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner .
Life
Osoro started his career as a track and cross-country runner . At the World Cross Country Championships in 1991 he was fifth, but retired in the summer at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo over 5000 m in the run. Between 1990 and 1993 he won three times at the San Silvestre Vallecana . When his car crashed into a truck in 1995, he suffered such serious injuries that he had to take a two-year break.
Then he switched to the marathon distance and immediately won the Chicago Marathon in 2:06:54 h, the second fastest time of 1998 after the world record of Ronaldo da Costa . In the following year he was third in the world record run by Khalid Khannouchi in 2:08:00 h. After finishing third in the Boston Marathon the following year , he was nominated for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Two months before the Games, he was shot in a robbery and injured so badly in the shoulder that he still cannot hold a pen in his right hand.
In 2001 he finished seventh in the Chicago Marathon in 2:11:44 h, and in 2003 he won the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon . After that, however, a puzzling illness troubled him, so that his attempt at comeback at the Frankfurt Marathon 2004 resulted in a ninth place in 2:15:54 h.
Personal bests
- 5000 m: 13: 11.77 min, July 17th 1991, Rome
- 10,000 m : 27: 24.24 min, September 3, 1993, Brussels
- 15K road run : 43:00 min, July 12, 1998, Utica
- Half marathon : 1:01:50 h, March 12, 2000, Kyoto
- Marathon: 2:06:54 h, October 11, 1998, Chicago
Web links
- Ondoro Osoro in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
Footnotes
- ↑ Netzeitung : Osoro celebrates marathon comeback in Frankfurt after the robbery ( memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). October 29, 2004
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| SURNAME | Osoro, Ondoro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd December 1967 |