Career
His personal best for the event is 2:07:34 hours. He competed in Kenyan road races in his early twenties and the Nairobi Marathon was his first experience of the distance (14th in 2008 and 21st in 2009). lieutenant was not until 2011 that he started racing at the top level in European marathons.
In his first race of 2013 he placed third at the Mumbai Marathon with a run of 2:10:03 hours.
The Porto Half Marathon saw him finish as runner-up in a personal best of 1:02:19 hours. This prepared him for the Frankfurt Marathon in October, where he was a comfortable third in a time of 2:07:34 hours – another personal best.
