Baringo Half Marathon Explained

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Date:December
Location:Baringo, Kenya
Type:Road
Distance:Half marathon
Est:2001

The Baringo Half Marathon is an annual road running competition for men and women over the half marathon distance which takes place every December in Baringo, Kenya. The programme previously had a 15 kilometres race for women, but this was extended to a half marathon in 2011.[1]

The race was established in 2001 by Paul Tergat, a former marathon world record holder, who was born in the local area.[2] Tergat hoped that the race would unearth and nurture high quality runners in the area.[1] It tends to attract around 500 (mostly Kenyan) runners, among them a number of world-class road racing athletes.[3] [4]

The course of the road race features many curves and multiple uphill and downhill sections.[5] Mubarak Hassan Shami became the first runner to defend the title,[3] and Agnes Kiprop became the first woman to win the competition twice consecutively. The race received greater commercial support in 2009, attracting sponsorship deals with Safaricom and the National Social Security Fund.[6] Around 300 runners took part in the 2010 men's half marathon race.[7]

The men's event was changed to a 20 kilometres road race in 2006 and 2007,[8] [9] but it returned to its original half marathon format in 2008 with the 20 km races not considered to be within the editions of the race.[10]

Past winners

Key:

class=unsortableEditionYearMen's half marathon winnerTime (h:m:s)Women's 15 km winnerTime (h:m:s)
1st2001????
2nd2002[11] 1:00:5454:07
–2003Did not held
3rd2004???
4th20051:01.5752:49
5th20061:06.5541:25.23
6th200657:2850:08
7th200756:1450:52
8th20081:02:06.450:55
9th20091:02:13.851:08.6
10th20101:02:2550:25.9
11th20111:02:23.11:10:57.1
12th20121:02:32.51:01:15.3
13th2013[12] 1:03:521:13:43
14th2014[13] 1:01:241:10:06
–2015Did not held, only 10km race held.
15th20161:02:511:11:02
16th20171:01:471:12:19

Notes and References

  1. Macharia, David (2011-11-06). Jepkurui dominated Baringo Half Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-11-07.
  2. http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=23777.html Kenyan New Year road races provide few surprises
  3. Macharia, David (2006-01-07). Shami defends Baringo Half Marathon title. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-12-22.
  4. http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=34335 500 athletes at Baringo marathon
  5. Macharia, David (2005-01-10). Shami remains in good form. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-12-22.
  6. Macharia, David (2009-12-20). Teenager Ndiema surprises with Baringo Half Marathon victory. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-12-22.
  7. Macharia, David (2010-11-07). Kipkorir surprises to take victory at Baringo Half-Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-11-07.
  8. Macharia, David (2006-12-09). Last two uphill kilometres decisive for Kemboi in Baringo. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-12-22.
  9. Macharia, David (2007-11-10). Kigen runs 56:14 for 20km in Kabarnet. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-12-22.
  10. Macharia, David (2008-12-06). Loritam and Kiprop take Baringo road race titles. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-12-22.
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20160309122458/https://business.highbeam.com/3548/article-1G1-81212933/songok-wins-baringo-half-marathon Songok Wins Baringo Half Marathon
  12. Magut, Stanley (2013-11-04). Kenya: Kimeng'wa and Kiprop Top Baringo Half Marathon. All Africa News. Retrieved on 2015-01-05.
  13. Otieno, Derek (2014-11-02). Kiprop records first ever win at Baringo Half Marathon . People Daily Kenya. Retrieved on 2015-01-05.

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