Eliud Kiptanui

Eliud Kiptanui ( born June 6 1989) is a Kenyan marathon runner.

As a fourth of six children, he grew up in Kaptagat in Eldoret. As a 16 - year-old student he began to running, but then had to quit school because his family 's school fees could not muster. Without a training group to belong to, he was able to hold in 2008 at a 15 - km run in the altitude of Eldoret with a time of 47 minutes with top runners.

In 2009 he was hired as a pacemaker for the 3000 -meter run the Bislett Games and came in 8:04,57 minutes to the finish.

He had in December of that year when he, despite difficult external conditions won the Safaricom Marathon in Kisumu in 2:12:17 h, while almost seven minutes ahead of the runner-up had his breakthrough.

He was then taken by the German manager Volker Wagner under contract. Kiptanui should start in 2010 at the Vienna City Marathon, but the volcanic eruption of Eyjafjallajökull prevented that he could arrive by plane in time.

Instead, he joined three weeks later at the Prague Marathon on there and improved the course record by more than two minutes to 2:05:39 h In the autumn he was at the Berlin Marathon in 2:08:05 in fifth.

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