Abel Kirui
Abel Kirui (center ), winner of the 25th Vienna City Marathon
Abel Kirui ( born June 4, 1982 in Bomet, Rift Valley) is a Kenyan long- distance runner who specializes in the marathon and in this discipline is the reigning world champion.
In 2006, he was sixth at the Berlin Half Marathon in 1:01:15 h and Ninth at the Berlin Marathon in 2:17:47 h In the following year he won the Paderborn Easter Run in 1:01:32 h and was at the Vienna City Marathon Third in 2:10:41 h in sixth of the Rotterdam half Marathon he improved his half marathon best to 1:00:11 h and then was at the Berlin Marathon runner-up in 2:06:51 hours behind Haile Gebrselassie, the world record was. In 2008, he introduced the Vienna City Marathon with 2:07:38 h a course record.
In 2009 he finished the Rotterdam Marathon in third place. With his case achieved new personal best of 2:05:04 hours, he finished in sixth place at this time in the eternal world leaderboard. Four months later he secured at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin the title in the marathon. With his winning time of 2:06:55 hours, he set a new championship record. At the World Championships in Daegu, he repeated this triumph in a time of 2:07:38 h In the Summer Olympics 2012, 2:08:27 Kirui erlief in the silver medal.