Eliud Kipchoge

Eliud Kipchoge

Personal information
Born	(1984-11-05) 5 November 1984 (age 32)
Height	167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Country	Kenya
Sport	Athletics
Coached by	Patrick Sang
Medal record Eliud Kipchoge Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Kenya Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Marathon 2008 Beijing 5000 m 2004 Athens 5000 m World Championships 2003 Paris 5000 m 2007 Osaka 5000 m World Cross Country Championships 2003 Lausanne Junior Race World Indoor Championships 2006 Moscow 3000 m Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi 5000 m

Eliud Kipchoge (born 5 November 1984 in Kapsisiywa, Nandi District) is a Kenyan long distance runner who has won medals at the Olympic and World level.

He came to prominence in 2003 by winning the junior race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, setting a world junior record over 5000 metres on the track and then becoming world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. An Olympic 5000 m bronze for Kenya followed at the 2004 Athens Olympics and he took another bronze at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

A series of silver medals came, starting at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics before another runner-up placing at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was fifth at the 2009 World Championships but again reached the podium at the 2010 Commonwealth Games; he was second behind Moses Kipsiro in the 5000 metres. He has won four medals at editions of the annual IAAF World Athletics Final and is a five-time 5000 m finalist at the World Championships.

His 3000 metres best of 7:27.66 ranks him as the 12th fastest at the distance ever and his 5000 m best of 12:46.53 makes him the fourth fastest ever in the event. He began to move towards road running in 2012 and set a half marathon best of 59:25 minutes - which is the 3rd fastest debut half marathon in history. He then won the 2013 Hamburg Marathon with a very fast finishing time of 2:05:30. He improved on this later that year, at the Berlin Marathon, running 2:04:05, the fifth-fastest marathon in history at the time. He won the London Marathon in 2015. He also won the Berlin Marathon in 2015 in 2:04:00, improving his personal best by 5 seconds. In 2016, he improved on this personal best again, achieving a winning time of 2:03:05 (second fastest time ever at the time on a record-eligible course and setting a new course record) at the London Marathon, followed by a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics with a time of 2:08:44. He is currently the 3rd fastest Marathon runner ever behind Dennis Kimetto (2.02.57) and Kenenisa Bekele (2.03.03).