Peter Cheruiyot Kirui
Peter Cheruiyot Kirui (born January 2, 1988 in Bomet ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .
Life
In 2008 he finished second in the Cursa Bombers , and in 2009 he won the Carreira Popular Coruña.
The following year he was second in the Berlin half marathon and fifth in the Paderborn Easter run over 10 km. A deployment at the Chicago Marathon as a pacemaker for Samuel Kamau Wanjiru was followed by a ninth place in the Delhi Half Marathon .
In 2011 he finished third at the CPC Loop The Hague . As a Kenyan champion over 10,000 m , he drove to the World Athletics Championships in Daegu , where he finished sixth over this distance. As a pacemaker for Patrick Makau Musyoki in his world record run, he passed the 30 km mark in the Berlin Marathon in the world best time of 1:27:37 h (one second ahead of Musyoki). He was also used as a rabbit in the Frankfurt Marathon ; there he accompanied the eventual winner Wilson Kipsang up to km 30 and ran through to sixth place.
In 2012 he won the New York City Half Marathon .
In August 2016 he won the half marathon at “ Carinthia runs ” on Lake Wörthersee .
A month later he was also able to win the half marathon of the Wachau Marathon and set a new course record in Krems an der Donau - he achieved a time of under an hour for the first time with his winning time of 59:53 minutes.
In 2017 he won both of these half marathon competitions.
Personal bests
- 3000 m : 7: 45.79 min, July 18, 2009, Saragossa
- 5000 m : 13: 15.90 min, July 25, 2009, Barcelona
- 10,000 m: 27: 25.63 min, August 28, 2011, Daegu
- 10 km road run : 27:55 min, April 3, 2010, Paderborn
- Half marathon : 59:22 min, April 5, 2014, Prague
- 30 km road race : 1:27:37 h, September 25, 2011, Berlin (world best time, intermediate time)
- Marathon : 2:06:31 h, October 30, 2011, Frankfurt am Main
Web links
- Athlete portrait of Peter Cheruiyot Kirui at the IAAF (English)
Footnotes
- ^ IAAF: Kirui and Dado triumph in New York Half Marathon ( Memento from March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). March 18, 2012
- ↑ Results Carinthia Runs 2016 (August 21, 2016)
- ↑ Wachau half marathon with new course record website of the ORF , accessed on September 18, 2016.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kirui, Peter Cheruiyot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bomet |