Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich
Wilson Kipsang at the 2012 London Marathon
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| Full name | Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich | ||||||||||||
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15 March 1982 Keiyo, Kenya |
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| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Country | Kenya | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Long-distance running | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Marathon | ||||||||||||
| Club | Kenya Police | ||||||||||||
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Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich (born 15 March 1982) is a Kenyan athlete who specialises in long-distance running, competing in events ranging from 10 km to the marathon. He was the bronze medallist in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is the former world record holder in the marathon with a time of 2:03:23, which he set at the 2013 Berlin Marathon. He has run under 2 hours 4 minutes for the marathon on four separate occasions.
Kipsang is a two-time winner of the Frankfurt Marathon (2010 and 2011) and has also won the London Marathon (2012 and 2014), New York Marathon (2014), and Tokyo Marathon (2017). He holds the twelfth best time over the half marathon distance (58:59 minutes).
A native of Keiyo District in Kenya, Kipsang began competitive running for Kenya Police, and finished second in the 10 kilometre Tegla Loroupe Peace Race. He became a professional international athlete in 2007 and that year he took second place at the Tilburg Ten Miles, recording a time of 46:27, and he won a road race in Hem (his time of 27:51 was the fourth fastest in a 10 km race that year). He also took third place at the Kenyan Police Force championships, finishing behind Richard Mateelong.
At the World's Best 10K, he finished third with a time of 28:09 behind Deriba Merga and Silas Kipruto.
He returned to the Tilburg Ten Miles race in 2008, and again finished as runner-up – just two seconds behind winner Abiyote Guta. His peak of the year was in a half marathon race: the Delhi Half Marathon. Kipsang pushed Merga, the 2006 World Road Running Champion, right up to the line but finished one second behind him. Despite the second-place finish, Kipsang improved his best by over one minute to 59:16. His time was also the third fastest half marathon by any runner that year, with Merga and Haile Gebrselassie ahead of him by just one second each.
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