Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich
Wilson Kipsang at the 2012 London Marathon | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich |
| Born | 15 March 1982 Keiyo District, Kenya |
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sport | Long-distance running |
| Event | Marathon |
| Club | Kenya Police |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Olympic finals | 2012 Marathon, Bronze |
| Personal bests |
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| Updated on 4 November 2019 | |
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich (born 15 March 1982) is a Kenyan professional athlete who specialises in long-distance running, competing in events ranging from 10 km to the marathon. He was the bronze medallist in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is the former world record holder in the marathon with a time of 2:03:23, which he set at the 2013 Berlin Marathon. He has run under 2 hours 4 minutes for the marathon on four occasions.
Kipsang is a double winner of the Frankfurt Marathon (2010 and 2011) and has also won the London Marathon twice (2012 and 2014), New York Marathon (2014), and Tokyo Marathon (2017). His best time over the half marathon distance is 58:59.
Kipsang served a four-year ban from January 2020 to January 2024 for anti-doping rule violations relating to whereabouts failures and tampering with the investigation.