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Caroline Cheptanui Kilel (born 21 March 1981) is a Kenyan
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who specializes in
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competitions. She was the winner at the 2011 Boston Marathon and the
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in 2010 and 2013. Kilel took the silver medal in the marathon at the
2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games (), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014 (; ), were an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth Games as governed by the Commonwea ...
. She has also won marathons in
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,
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and
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. Her personal best for the distance is 2:22:34 set in
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in 2013, and her best in the
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is 1:08:16.


Career

At the 2003 World Cross Country Championships she finished eighth in the long race, while the Kenyan team, of which Kilel was a part, won the silver medal in the team competition. After having runner-up finishes at the 2003 Venice Marathon and 2004
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, she won her first race over the classic distance at the Palermo City Marathon, knocking over five minutes off the former course record with her time of 2:31:15.Cheptanui Caroline Kilel
Marathon Info. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
She finished sixteenth at the 2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and won the Nairobi Marathon that year. In other competitions, she won the Semi-Marathon Marvejols-Mende and came seventh at the
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. She began to focus exclusively on road events from 2006 onwards. She had top three finishes at the Dublin Marathon and Prague Marathon that year and set a
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personal best of 1:10:45 to win the Great Scottish Run. Her 2007 season was a low point, as she was out of the top five at both the RAK Half Marathon and the
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at the start of the year and did not compete after March.Caroline Kilel
Tilastopaja. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
She returned to action in December 2008 and was in good form; she set a personal best to win the Pune Half Marathon then ran her second fastest ever time for the marathon (2:30:44) to claim the title at the Taipei International Marathon. In 2009, she was third at the BIG 25 Berlin race and attended the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in
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, England. She just missed out on the podium, finishing fourth, although she had managed to set a personal best of 1:08:16 as well as help Kenya to the team gold. She then went on to set a new personal best with a win at the Ljubljana Marathon a few weeks later, improving her previous mark by almost five minutes and setting a new course record in the process. She also won the Great Scottish Run in Glasgow for a second time and topped the podium at the Montferland Run 15K race. The following year, Kilel took part in the
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and clocked 2:26:58 for third place. That October she had her biggest win on the circuit, taking the women's title at the
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in a new course record and personal best of 2:23:25 hours, defeating Dire Tune by 19 seconds. She competed in numerous other events that year, including wins at the 20 kilomètres de Maroilles, Zwolle Half Marathon and Great Scottish Run. In April 2011, Kilel won the
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in 2:22:36 beating American Desiree Davila, who ran the fastest Boston Marathon for an American women, by two seconds. She stayed on in Boston to compete at the inaugural B.A.A. 10K, which she also won in a time of 31:58 minutes. In September she came third in a Kenyan sweep of the Portugal Half Marathon, behind
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and Helena Kirop. In her first race of 2012, she was runner-up to
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in a sprint finish at the Houston Half Marathon. She suffered in the hot conditions at the 2012 Boston Marathon and not only failed to defend her title, but did not finish the race. She won the Taipei Marathon for a second time that December, running the distance in 2:30:19 hours. Returning to the Houston Half Marathon, she was again runner-up to an Ethiopian, this time to
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. Kilel faded badly at the 2013 Tokyo Marathon, coming 21st in 2:47:08 hours. She focused on the
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after that, but did not gain selection for the
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. She returned to the top of the podium at the Frankfurt Marathon with a new personal best of 2:22:34 hours (a two-second improvement).


Personal bests

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– 32:27.8h min (
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2005) *
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– 1:08:16 hrs (
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2009) *
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– 2:22:34 hrs (
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2013)


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kilel, Caroline 1981 births Living people Kenyan female long-distance runners Kenyan female marathon runners Boston Marathon female winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Frankfurt Marathon female winners Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Kenya Commonwealth Games athletes for Kenya Kenyan female cross country runners Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 21st-century Kenyan sportswomen Commonwealth Games silver medallists in athletics