Richard Limo
Richard Limo (also: Richard Kipkemei Limo ; born November 18, 1980 in Cheptigit near Eldoret ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .
Career on the track and in cross-country running
Limo originally wanted to become an electrician and didn't start running until 1997, fascinated by the athletes at a training camp near his family's farm. In 1998 and 1999 he won silver in the junior races of the Cross Country World Championships . In 1998 he also won bronze in 13: 37.42 minutes in the 5000 meter run at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and silver in 8: 20.67 minutes in the 3000 meter obstacle course at the African Athletics Championships . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, he finished tenth in the 5000 meter run in 13: 39.41 min. In this slow race with a quick final lap, he was only four seconds behind gold at the finish.
At the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, a much faster race developed from the start. At the beginning of the last corner, the Algerian Ali Saïdi-Sief was just ahead of Richard Limo in the lead, but Limo overtook him in the final sprint and won in 13: 00.77 minutes. Ali Saïdi-Sief was later stripped of his silver medal because of doping , so that in the official result list the Olympic champion of 2000, Million Wolde from Ethiopia, is in second place with 13: 03.47 min.
In 2002 and 2003, Richard Limo was fourth in the cross-country world championships on the long distance and won gold with the Kenyan team. At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis, Limo finished seventh in the fastest championship race over 5000 meters in 13: 01.13 minutes.
Success on the road
In the following years, Limo, who in 1999 turned the Silvesterlauf Peuerbach had won the road race too. In 2004 he won the Giro Media Blenio over 10 km, and in 2006 he finished second in the Montferland Run over 15 km.
In his debut over the 42.195 km distance, he finished second in the 2007 Amsterdam Marathon in 2:06:45 h. The following year he was fourth in the Rotterdam Marathon and tenth in the Chicago Marathon . In 2009 he finished ninth in Rotterdam and fifth in Chicago. A second place in the Los Angeles Marathon 2010 was followed by his first victory over this distance in the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon that same year .
Richard Limo is 1.67 m and weighs 53 kg. He is married and has two children.
Top performances
- 1500 m : 3: 37.59 min, May 26, 1999, Cottbus
- 3000 m : 7: 32.23 min, August 24, 2001, Brussels
- 5000 m: 12: 56.72 min, August 17, 2001, Zurich
- 10,000 m : 26: 50.20 min, August 30, 2002, Brussels
- 15 km road race: 43:44 min, December 3, 2006, 's-Heerenberg
- Half marathon : 1:02:23 h, September 14, 2008, Rotterdam
- Marathon: 2:06:45 h, October 21, 2007, Amsterdam
- 3000 m obstacle course : 8: 20.67 min, August 20, 1998, Dakar
literature
- Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2006. The international Track and Field Annual. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2006, ISBN 1-899807-34-9 .
Web links
- Richard Limo in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Patience and Passion. Richard Limo: Young Kenyan on Top of the World , Portrait in Running Times Magazine, May 2002
- Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes , August 31, 2003
Footnotes
- ^ IAAF: Limo, Gromova take San Diego wins ( Memento June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). June 7, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Limo, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Limo, Richard Kipkemei |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cheptigit at Eldoret |