Elisha Rotich is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon. Rotich has a personal best in the marathon of 2:04:21, which he set when he won and set the course record at the

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in 2021. Rotich also won the 2016 Cannes Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes, the 2017 Chuncheon Chosunilbo Marathon, and the 2018

Eindhoven Marathon The Eindhoven Marathon ( Dutch: ''Marathon Eindhoven'') is an annual marathon race over the classic distance of 42.195km which is held in the city of Eindhoven, The Netherlands in October. It has been an annual race since 1990 – it was held bie ...

Career

Early career 2010 - 2015

Rotich began his career racing mainly road races from 10k to marathon. Rotich's marathon debut was at the 2011 Kassel Marathon, where he placed 3rd in 2:15:18. In 2014 Rotich won the Strasbourg Half Marathon and the

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. In 2015 he secured his first marathon victory at the San Sebastián Marathon in Spain clocking 2:13:56.

2016 - 2018

In 2016 Rotich placed 3rd in the

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, before winning the Cannes Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes in 2:10:45. In 2017 Elisha won the Gunsan Marathon and the Chuncheon Chosunilbo Marathon, both in

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, and clocking 2:08:58 in the latter. In 2018 Rotich placed 4th in the Daegu Marathon in 2:07:50. Later in the year Rotich secured another marathon victory on 14 October winning the

in 2:07:32.

2019 - present

On 17 March, 2019 Rotich ran the Seoul Marathon, where he placed 2nd in 2:06:12, while the race was won by Thomas Kiplagat in 2:06:00. On 31 August he placed 5th at the Semi Marathon in

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in 1:00:42. Rotich then placed 3rd in the

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on 20 October in 2:05:18, while his compatriot Vincent Kipchumba won the race in 2:05:09. In 2020 Rotich raced one marathon. On 20 December he placed second at the

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in 2:13:07. The race was won by his compatriot

Paul Lonyangata Paul Kipchumba Lonyangata (born 12 December 1992) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in road running events. He is a marathon runner with a personal best of 2:06:10 and has won marathons in Lisbon, Shanghai, Taipei and Paris. He was ...

, who set a new course record of 2:09:18. In 2021 Elisha placed 10th in the

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on 16 May in a time of 2:06:44. Next Rotich raced the

on 17 October where he won the race in a new course record of 2:04:21, breaking

Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele Beyecha (; ; born 13 June 1982) is an Ethiopian Long-distance running, long-distance runner. He was the world record holder in both the 5000 metres, 5,000-metre and 10000 metres, 10,000-metre from 2004 until 2020. He won the go ...

's previous course record of 2:05:04 from 2014. On New Year's Eve 2021 in

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Rotich placed 4th at the 96° Corrida Internacional de São Silvestre in 46:26 a personal best.

Personal bests

;Outdoor Elisha ROTICH , Profile , World Athletics. (2021b). Worldathletics.Org. Retrieved January 2, 2022, from https://worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/elisha-rotich-14443470

References

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