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Andrew Eyapan

Kenyan distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ504605 ↗
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Andrew Ekai Eyapan (born December 12, 1965) is a long-distance runner from Kenya, who won the 1998 edition of the Vienna Marathon. He is a former race walker, who won the bronze medal in the men's 20 km Walk at the 1990 African Championships in Cairo, Egypt. He won the Berlin Half Marathon in 1998.

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“Andrew Eyapan” enters the record as kenyan distance runner. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Andrew, Eyapan and Kenyan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1998, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Andrew, Eyapan and Kenyan.
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“Andrew Eyapan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Andrew, Eyapan and Kenyan provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q504605. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1998 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andrew Eyapan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.