Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich ( born March 15, 1982 at Keiyo District ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He is the current world record holder in the marathon ( 2:03:23 h, situated at the Berlin Marathon, 2013).
Career
After he had completed secondary school at age 18, he 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 next to his profession successfully in local races.
In 2007 he met the manager Gerard van de Veen, with whom he was to work together from now on, and soon drove it on behalf of injured athletes for the first time to Europe to take part in road races. When Schortenser Jever Fun run ten miles he presented with 45:41 minutes as a course record, as with 27:51 min while Hemmeromloop over 10 km. In the Tilburg Ten Miles he finished second, and a week later he won the Alster.
In 2008, he was sixth at the Berlin Half Marathon, fifth at the Dam tot Damloop and achieved second place at 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 of the fifth runner in history to undercut the 59 -minute mark over this distance. After he finished third at the World 's Best 10K, and the Berlin Half Marathon, fourth at the World Half Marathon Championships in Birmingham and third in the Delhi Half Marathon.
In 2010, he finished fourth at the World 's Best 10K, and in his debut on the 42,195 - km - distance third in the Paris Marathon. At the Frankfurt Marathon he sat at five kilometers from the finish to a solo career and improved the course record by more than a minute to 2:04:57 h
In 2011 he presented the Lake Biwa marathon with 2:06:13 h a course record, won the Zwolle Half Marathon, running at Carinthia and achieved the Frankfurt Marathon with 2:03:42 hours, the second fastest ever time run - only four seconds previously established on the world record - one months time from Patrick Makau Musyoki.
In 2012, he was third at the RAK Half Marathon and won the London Marathon, after which he was nominated for the Olympic Games in London. There he won the bronze medal in the marathon competition.
As the winner of the Berlin Marathon in 2013, he presented 2:03:23 h on a new world record.
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich is 1,83 m tall and weighs 62 kg.