Bedan Karoki Muchiri (born 21 August 1990) is a Kenyan professional

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who competes in track, cross country and

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disciplines. He represented Kenya at the

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and 2016 Summer Olympics. He was a silver medallist at the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and the 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, and also in the 10,000 m at the 2011 All-Africa Games. His

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best of 58:42 minutes ranks him in the all-time top ten for the distance.

Career

Bedan Karoki Muchiri was born in Nyandarua. Muchiri attended Muthiga and Kagondo primary schools in Kenya and joined the Mt.Kenya Talents Development Centre, before going on to study in Japan. He graduated from high school there and attained a high level of proficiency in Japanese. Karoki spent much of his early career running on the Japanese racing circuit, including wins at the Chiba International Cross Country three years in a row, from 2009 to 2011. He also won the

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in 2011.Bitan Karoki Muchiri
Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2016-04-03. He had his first international call-up for Kenya and won a silver medal in the 10,000 m at the 2011 All-Africa Games in

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, despite losing the trials and eventually gaining selection as a wildcard entry. He won his place on the Kenyan Olympic team by finishing third behind

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and

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at the Kenyan Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, which were held during the

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. He finished fifth in the

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at the 2012 Olympics in a time of 27:32.94, the highest finishing Kenyan in the race. In 2013, he won the Kenyan trials then placed sixth in the 10,000 meters at the

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. In 2014, he competed in his first American road race, winning the

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in 27:36. Later he won the Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon in 59:23. Karoki placed second at the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships behind countryman Geoffrey Kipsang after leading for much of the race. He represented Kenya in the 10,000 m at the

2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

and narrowly missed out on a medal in fourth place. Medals came at the 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, where he was runner-up to compatriot Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor and shared in the team title. He is the Ambassador for The Mt. Kenya Talents Development Centre. In 2017 Muchiri competed in the 2017 London Marathon where he finished in a time of 2:07:41 behind Ethiopian

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and Kenyan counterpart Daniel Wanjiru.

International competitions

National titles

* Kenyan Cross Country Championships **12 km: 2012, 2014, 2015 *Kenyan World Championships Trials **10,000 metres: 2013 *

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**5000 metres: 2009, 2011 *Japanese Corporate Championships **5000 metres: 2012

Circuit wins

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: 2015 *

Philadelphia Half Marathon The Philadelphia Distanced Run is an annual half marathon road running event which takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States on the third Sunday of September. The competition was established in 1978 as the Philadelphia Distan ...

: 2014 *

Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon The is an annual half marathon road running competition held in May in Gifu, Japan. First held in 2011, the race is also called the , named after Naoko Takahashi, the retired local runner who won the marathon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and bro ...

: 2014 *

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: 2014 *

: 2014 * World's Best 10K: 2014, 2016 * Discovery Kenya Cross Country: 2016 *

: 2011 * Chiba International Cross Country: 2009, 2010, 2011 *

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: 2017, 2018 *

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: 2019

Personal bests

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– 3:42.1 (2016) * 3000 metres – 7:37.68 (2013) * 5000 metres – 13:15.25 (2014) *

– 26:52.12 (2017) *

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– 27:37 (2014) *

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– 58:42 (2018) * Marathon – 02:05:53 (2019) Info from All AthleticsBitan Karoki
All Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-04-03.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Karoki, Bedan 1990 births Living people Kenyan male long-distance runners Olympic athletes of Kenya Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Kenya African Games silver medalists for Kenya African Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Kenyan male cross country runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 All-Africa Games 20th-century Kenyan people 21st-century Kenyan people