Richard Limo
Richard Limo (also: Richard Kipkemei soda; born November 18, 1980 in Cheptigit in Eldoret ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.
Career on the track and in cross country
Limo originally wanted to be an electrician and began only in 1997 with the running training on, fascinated by the athletes a training camp near the family farm. In 1998 and 1999 he won silver at the junior race of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. In 1998 he also won in 13:37,42 min bronze in the 5000 - meter race at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and in 8:20,67 min silver in the 3,000-meter steeplechase track and Africa Championships. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, he finished in the 5000 -meter run in 13:39,41 min tenth. In this stroll race with fast final lap he had in goal just four seconds behind gold.
At the World Athletics Championships 2001 in Edmonton developed from the outset a much faster race. Receipt of the last curve was the Algerian Ali Saïdi - Sief just ahead of Richard Limo lead, but Limo overtook him in the final sprint and won in 13:00,77 min. Ali Saïdi - Sief later became his silver medal for doping is withdrawn, that in the official results of the Olympic champion from 2000, Million Wolde from Ethiopia, with 13:03,47 min is performed in second place.
In the years 2002 and 2003, Richard Limo was fourth positions respectively at the World Cross Country Championship on the long haul and won with the Kenyan team gold each. At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis was in the limo to go fastest Cup race over 5000 meters in 13:01,13 min seventh.
Success on the road
In the following years, Limo, who won the New Year's run Peuerbach in 1999 turned, the road running to. In 2004, he won the Giro Media Blenio about 10 km, and in 2006 he was second in the Montferland Run over 15 km.
Making its debut on the 42,195 -km distance, he was second at the 2007 Amsterdam Marathon in 2:06:45 h following year he was fourth at the Rotterdam Marathon and tenth at the Chicago Marathon. In 2009, he was ninth in Rotterdam and fifth in Chicago. A second place at the Los Angeles Marathon 2010 was followed in the same year his first victory over this distance at the Rock 'n ' Roll Marathon.
Richard Limo is 1.67 m and weighs 53 kg. He is married and has two children.