Wilson Kipsang

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Wilson Kipsang athletics

Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich running world record at Berlin marathon 2013.jpg
at the world record run, Berlin Marathon 2013

Full name Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich
nation KenyaKenya Kenya
birthday 15th March 1982 (age 38)
place of birth Elgeyo-Marakwet County,  Kenya
size 183 cm
Weight 62 kg
Career
discipline Long distance running
Best performance 2:03:13 h (marathon)
58:59 min (half marathon)
status blocked
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
bronze London 2012 marathon
Half marathon world championships
gold Birmingham 2009 Team evaluation
last change: September 16, 2018

Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich (born March 15, 1982 in Elgeyo-Marakwet County ) is a currently banned Kenyan long-distance runner . With a time of 2:03:23 h in the Berlin Marathon on September 29, 2013 , he was the world record holder in the marathon for a year .

Career

After graduating from secondary school at the age of 18, Wilson Kipsang became a traveling salesman. Only the marathon world record of Paul Tergat in 2003 inspired him to pursue the sport of running ambitious, and soon he was successful in addition to his job at the local races.

In 2007 he met manager Gerard van de Veen, with whom he was to work from now on, and soon drove to Europe for the first time to represent an injured athlete to take part in road races. In the Schortenser Jever Fun Run over ten miles , he set a course record with 45:41 minutes, as well as with 27:51 minutes in the Hemmeromloop over 10 km. He finished second at the Tilburg Ten Miles , and a week later he won the Alsterlauf .

In 2008 he finished sixth in the Berlin half marathon , fifth in the Dam tot Damloop and finished second in the Delhi half marathon with 59:16 minutes, the third fastest time of the year.

The following year he won the Egmond half marathon and was second in the RAK half marathon with 58:59 minutes, the fifth runner in history to undercut the 59-minute mark over this distance. Then he was third in the World's Best 10K and the Berlin Half Marathon, fourth in the Half Marathon World Championships in Birmingham and there also world champion in the team standings (with Bernard Kiprop Kipyego and Wilson Kwambai Chebet ). At the Delhi Half Marathon he was third.

In 2010 he finished fourth in the World's Best 10K and third in the Paris Marathon on his 42.195km debut . At the Frankfurt Marathon , he set out to go it alone five kilometers from the finish and improved the course record by more than a minute to 2:04:57 h.

Crossing the finish line at the Frankfurt Marathon 2011
Wilson Kipsang at the 2012 London Marathon

In 2011 he set a course record at the Biwa Lake Marathon with 2:06:13 h, won the Zwolle Half Marathon and Carinthia and achieved the second fastest time ever run in the Frankfurt Marathon with 2:03:42 h - only four Seconds above the world record set by Patrick Makau Musyoki a month earlier .

In 2012 he finished third in the RAK Half Marathon and won the London Marathon , after which he was nominated for the London Olympics. There he won the bronze medal in the marathon competition.

As the winner of the Berlin Marathon 2013 , he set a new world record with 2:03:23 h, which was beaten by Dennis Kimetto a year later . In 2014 he won the marathons in London and New York . He couldn't finish his marathon at the 2015 World Athletics Championships .

In 2016 he improved his best time to 2:03:13 h in the marathon in Berlin .

On November 5, 2017, he finished second behind Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor in the New York City Marathon in 2:10:56 h.

In 2018, he won the Tokushima Marathon after giving up a month earlier at the Tokyo Marathon with stomach problems. At the Berlin Marathon in September 2018, he finished third in 2:06:48 hours.

doping

In January 2020, Kipsang was temporarily suspended by the independent integrity commission (AIU) of the world athletics association World Athletics and, with notification of July 3, 2020, retrospectively from January 10, 2020, due to violation of the reporting requirements and "manipulation through false evidence and testimony" until the beginning Blocked in 2024.

Personal bests

Web links

Commons : Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Favorite Kipsang runs a world record time at the 40th Berlin Marathon ( Memento from September 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ IAAF: Tergat's record the turning point for salesman Kipsang ( Memento of November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). November 3, 2010
  3. ↑ a b IAAF: Kipsang's sensational Frankfurt run complicates Kenyan Olympic team picture ( Memento from November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). October 31, 2011
  4. ^ IAAF: Strong winds destroys hopes of fast times in Egmond Half Marathon ( Memento from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). January 12, 2009
  5. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Record festival crowns the Frankfurt marathon . October 31, 2010
  6. ^ IAAF: Fast Kenyan double in Frankfurt; 2:04:57 and 2:23:25 ( memento of November 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). October 31, 2010
  7. ↑ IAAF: 2:06:13 course record for Kipsang at Lake Biwa ( Memento of March 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). March 6, 2011
  8. ↑ IAAF: Kipsang tantalises with 2:03:42 World record assault in Frankfurt ( Memento of 31 October 2011 at the Internet Archive ). October 30, 2011
  9. ↑ Wolfram Marx: Wilson Kipsang wants the world record . In: Leichtathletik.de. October 31, 2011
  10. ^ IAAF: Kipsang and Keitany claim London titles for Kenya . April 22, 2012
  11. ^ IAAF: Kenya announces London Olympic Marathon squad . April 25, 2012
  12. ↑ profile on www.london2012.com ( Memento of 18 August 2012 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 12 August 2012
  13. ↑ HDsports: Results Berlin Marathon 2016 . September 25, 2016
  14. ↑ Geoffrey Kamworwor Wins Tactical NYC Marathon. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Four years of doping ban for ex-world record holder Wilson Kipsang , Marathon, on: Leichtathletik.de, July 3, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020
  16. ↑ Latest Sanctions , on: athleticsintegrity.org, accessed July 3, 2020, temporarily, later see: Global List of Ineligible Persons
  17. ↑ As of July 2020
  18. ↑ As of July 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kipsang, Wilson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Elgeyo-Marakwet County