Paul Yego (born 25 November 1968) is a Kenyan retired distance and

marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of kilometres ( 26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There ...

runner. He participated at the

World Athletics Half Marathon Championships The World Athletics Road Running Championships is a biennial international road running competition organised by World Athletics. The competition was launched as the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1992 and held annually until 2010. It wa ...

in 1995 and won a

silver medal A silver medal, in sports and other similar areas involving competition, is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, ...

finishing behind

Moses Tanui Moses Tanui (born 20 August 1965 in Sugoi, Nandi District, Kenya) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who won the gold medal over 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. Biography At the 1993 World Championships ...

. He finished fifth in the 1995 Boston Marathon, eighth in the 1996 Boston Marathon, and seventh in the 1996 Berlin Marathon.

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* 1968 births Living people Kenyan male long-distance runners Kenyan male marathon runners Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Kenyan sportsmen {{Longdistance-athletics-bio-stub