Simon Cheprot (born 2 July 1993) is a Kenyan

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who competes mainly in road running events. He has twice represented Kenya at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and won a team gold medal in 2016. His half marathon personal best is 59:20 minutes, set in 2013, which ranks him in the top 40 of all time.

Career

Cheprot first emerged as a distance runner on the American road circuit in 2009, winning a series of low level races. The following year he had top eight finishes at high level races, including the Lilac Bloomsday Run, Bolder Boulder and

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. He began competing in Europe in the 2011 season and made his debut in the half marathon, taking third place at both the San Blas Half Marathon and Azkoitia-Azpeitia Half Marathon. He achieved a time of 61:59 minutes at the latter race, heading towards elite standard. He tried his hand at

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running in 2013, but failed to finish in either

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or Verona.Simon Cheprot

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. Retrieved on 2016-03-29. His shorter distance rimes improved however, going under 28 minutes for the

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for the first time and setting a half marathon best of 61:07 minutes at the Route du Vin Half Marathon – the 10K time ranked in the world's top forty for the year.Simon Cheprot
IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-03-29. Cheprot made a breakthrough at the 2013

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, finishing third behind world champion Wilson Kiprop with a time of 59:20 minutes. This moved him to seventh in that year's rankings. Better results did not materialise late rin the year, however, as he failed to complete the

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and was three minutes slower than his best at the

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, coming sixth. A fourth-place finish at the 2014 Roma-Ostia earned him his first international call-up and at the

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he placed 22nd overall. He also managed a 10K best at the Prague Grand Prix that year, recording a time of 27:41 minutes which again ranked him in the world's top ten for the season. Cheprot performed consistently in the 2015 season. He was runner-up in Roma-Ostia with a time of 59:39 minutes, then was runner-up at the

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and won the

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. All five of his half marathon outings that year brought times close to the one hour mark – his best of 59:32 minutes for fourth at the Copenhagen Half Marathon put him at twelfth place on the 2015 world lists.senior outdoor 2015 Half Marathon men
IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-03-29. He was chosen for the Kenyan team at the

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and earned his first global medal as his sixth-place finish helped the Kenyan trio of Cheprot,

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and

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to record a sub-3-hour time for the team gold medals.

International competitions

Personal bests

– 27:41 min (2014) * Half marathon – 59:20 min (2013)

References

External links

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All Athletics profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cheprot, Simon Living people 1993 births Kenyan male long-distance runners