Education
He competed for, and graduated from, Ryutsu Keizai University.
marathon runner athletics competitor
He competed for, and graduated from, Ryutsu Keizai University.
He represented his country at the World Championships in Athletics in 2007. He is based in Japan and trains with Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Sports Management. He moved to Japan as a teenager on an athletic scholarship and specialised in long-distance track running, including the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres.
At the 2005 Sapporo Half Marathon, he led for the first half of the race but had faded to fourth by the finish point.
At the end of the year he represented Kenyan in the International Chiba Ekiden. Running the marathon distance with a relay team of Martin Mathathi, Daniel Mwangi, Mekubo Mogusu, Onesmus Nyerere and John Kariuki, he helped set a world record time of 1:57:06 hours for the popular Japanese event.
A month after his world appearance, he took a 5000/10,000 m double at the Japan Corporate Team Track & Field Championships. He attempted to gain selection for the 2008 Summer Olympics, but ended the trials in seventh and was not picked for the squad.
He came seventh at the RAK Half Marathon in 2010, setting a personal best of 1:01:07 hours.
The following year he came fourth over 10,000 m at the Hyogo Relays and then claimed third place at the Sapporo Half Marathon in June. He made his debut over the marathon distance in December 2011 and made a successful transition by taking the Fukuoka Marathon title in a time of 2:07:36 hours. 1500 metres - 3:38.72 minimum (2004)
3000 metres - 7:42.98 minimum (2006)
5000 metres - 13:05.33 minimum (2005)
10,000 metres - 26:57.36 minimum (2009)
Half marathon - 1:01:07 hrs (2010)
Marathon - 2:07:36 hrs (2011).