Kenneth Kipkemoi
Medal record | ||
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Men's athletics
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Representing Kenya | ||
All-Africa Games
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2011 Maputo | Half marathon | |
African Championships | ||
2012 Porto Novo | 10,000 m |
Kenneth Kiprop Kipkemoi (born 2 August 1984)
Career
Kipkemoi first began competing at road events in Kenya and ran a time of 62:59 minutes at the 2009
He ran two half marathons in March 2012: he came in third at the
At the start of 2013, he attempted to gain selection for the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, but was twelfth in the Kenyan trials. Turning back to the roads, he came third at the World's Best 10K, then fourth at the Berlin Half Marathon. A third-place finish at the Kenyan 10,000 m trials earned him a place at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, where he managed seventh position overall.[7] After that, he was runner-up at the Valencia Half Marathon.
In 2013, Kipkemoi ran his first marathon in Gaborone, Botswana in 2:17:41.[8] In 2015 in Gongju, South Korea, he recorded a time of 2:12:08. In 2017, he competed again in Gongju, this time finishing with 2:09:43.[9] At his European marathon debut on April 8, 2018, he won the Rotterdam Marathon with a time of 2:05:44. In Rotterdam, he started as an underdog, but he beat the competition with a phenomenal last two kilometers.[10]
References
- world junior record), although Kipkemoi has stated his year of birth as 1984.[11]
- ^ IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-02.
- ^ All-Africa Games - Jeux Africains, Maputo (Mozambique) 11-15/9. Africa Athle. Retrieved on 2012-07-02.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-02.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-02.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-02.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-02.
- ^ a b Kenneth Kipkemoi. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2013-11-02.
- ^ Race profile Steinmetz Gaborone. Retrieved on 2018-04-08.
- ^ IAAF profile Kenneth Kipkemoi. Retrieved on 2018-04-08.
- ^ Kipkemoi wint Rotterdam marathon. Retrieved on 2018-04-08.
- ^ Kenneth Kipkemoi. Vimeo. Retrieved on 2012-07-02.