Ondoro Osoro

Ondoro Osoro ( born December 3, 1967) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner.

Osoro began his career as a track and cross country skiers. At the World Cross Country Championships 1991, he was fifth but retired during the summer at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo about 5000 m in the run- off. Between 1990 and 1993 he won three times at the San Silvestre Vallecana. In 1995, when his car collided with a truck, he suffered such severe injuries that he had to pause for two years.

He then moved to the full marathon and won right away at the Chicago Marathon in 2:06:54 h, the second fastest time of the year in 1998 behind the world record of Ronaldo da Costa. The following year he was at the same place in the world record run of Khalid Khannouchi third in 2:08:00 h After he had become the following year third in the Boston Marathon, he was nominated for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Two months before the Games, he was shot during a robbery and so badly injured in the shoulder that he can not hold a pen in his right hand today.

In 2001 he was seventh at the Chicago Marathon in 2:11:44 h, and in 2003 he won the Rock ' n ' Roll Marathon. Thereafter, however, he made ​​a mysterious illness create, so his comeback attempt at the Frankfurt Marathon 2004 resulted in a ninth place in 2:15:54 h.

Personal Best

  • 5000 m: 13:11,77 min, July 17, 1991, Rome
  • 10,000 m: 27:24,24 min, September 3, 1993 Brussels
  • 15 - km road race: 43:00 min, July 12, 1998, Utica
  • Half Marathon: 1:01:50 h, March 12, 2000 Kyoto
  • Marathon: 2:06:54 h, October 11, 1998 Chicago
Long-distance running All-weather running track Cross country running 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 1991 World Championships in Athletics 5000 metres Chicago-Marathon Boston-Marathon Frankfurt-Marathon Utica (New York) Netzeitung
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