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Willy Cheruiyot Kipkirui

Kenyan distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ731820 ↗
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Willy Cheruiyot Kipkirui (born 24 August 1974), also known as William Cheruiyot, is a long-distance runner from Kenya, who won the Eindhoven Marathon a record four times, in 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004. He ran his personal best (2:08:48) on 21 May 2000 at the Vienna Marathon.

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This entry incorporates text from “Willy Cheruiyot Kipkirui” 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.