Mark Kiptoo

Mark Kosgei Kiptoo ( born June 21, 1976 in Lumino, Lugari District ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.

After his education at Lumino Primary School and the Mukumu Boys School and completing his military service he settled in 1998 committed by the Air Force and joined after completing his training at the Kenya Armed Forces Technical Training College in 2002 to his service to the Laikipia Air Base.

In 2004 he started with the Running, after he had let himself be persuaded to participate in a race for his department. His serious training was interrupted when he was reassigned from January 2006 to March 2006 for the United Nations Mission in Burundi. In November 2006 he started on his first cross-country running. Beginning of the following year missed twelfth national elimination contests to participate in the World Cross Country Championships.

In the summer, he finished second at the national championships in the 5000m and then nominated for the Pan-African Games in Algiers, where he only finished ninth. He had much more success. During the Military World Games in Hyderabad, where he won gold in the 5000m and silver in the 10,000 m

In 2008 he qualified as second in the national elimination matches for the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, where he came on the 14th Place. Like last year, he was third in the 10 km du Conseil Général 13 In the summer he was fourth in the 10,000 m the Kenyan elimination matches for the Olympic Games in Beijing and had to be in the battle for third place with just 1.13 seconds behind Micah Kipkemboi kogo admit defeat. At the IAAF World Athletics Final he finished sixth over 3000m and fourth in the 5000m.

The following year, he contributed the World Cross Country Championships in Amman with a seventh place to the fact that the Kenyan team won gold. At the World 10K Bangalore, he finished second.

In 2010 he was second in the half marathon Azkoitia - Azpeitia and won both the Track and Africa Championships in Nairobi, as well as at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi bronze in the 5000m. In the following season he was again second in Azkoitia - Azpeitia and third in Parelloop.

In 2012 he took at the African Championships in Porto Novo Gold in the 5000m and silver in the 10,000 m. 2013 he started to Siegen in Azkoitia - Azpeitia and the half marathon the Drake Relays for the first time on the 42,195 - km - distance and was second at the Frankfurt Marathon.

Mark Kosgei Kiptoo is 1,75 m tall and weighs 64 kg. He dressed in the armed forces the rank of corporal and is the manager Ricky Simms (PACE Sports Management ) looked after. His mentor is John Kemboi Kibowen, also a sporty late bloomer, who belonged to the Air Force.

Personal Best

  • 3000 m: 7:32,97 min, 8th May 2009, Doha
  • 5000 m: 12:53,46 min, August 6, 2010 Stockholm
  • 10,000 m: 27:14,67 min, June 8, 2008 Eugene
  • 10 - km road race: 28:03 min, May 1, 2007 Marseille
  • Half Marathon: 1:00:42 h, March 24, 2013, Azpeitia
  • Marathon: 2:06:16 h, October 27, 2013, Frankfurt_am_Main
Long-distance running United Nations Operation in Burundi Cross country running 5000 metres 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 3000 metres 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2010 African Championships in Athletics Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games 2012 African Championships in Athletics Frankfurt-Marathon John Kibowen Eugene (Oregon) Marathon (disambiguation)
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