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Profile of Marathon World Record Holder Dennis KimettoPublished by
From Mole Hunter to Athletics StarPublished by The Standard on December 16, 2014 The 2014 season has shone with a new script that is different from the golden crew that usually ships home the bullion from foreign lands. It will go down in history as the year that Kenya’s Dennis Kimetto emerged as the first ever athlete to run 42km under two hours and three minutes. Indeed, Kenya has enjoyed a more than credible performance in well-heeled big city marathons and other global competitions this season, but Kimetto remains a cut above them all. And he would make it to the final three of the IAAF World Athlete of the Year awards held in Monte Carlo, Monaco, last month. Kimetto, who rose from setting traps to catch moles on people’s farms in Kamwosor village in Keiyo South, saw IAAF confirm his jaw-dropping time of 2:02:57 as a world marathon record. He earned a meagre Sh50 for every mole he successfully trapped. Read the full article at: www.standardmedia.co.ke
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