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Abel Kirui
Abel Kirui (born 6 April 1982) is a long-distance runner from Kenya who competes in marathons. He had back-to-back wins in the World Championships Marathon in 2009 and 2011. He won in 2009 with a time of 2:06:54, then defended his title with a winning margin of two minutes and 28 seconds – the largest ever margin at the World Championship event. He won a silver medal in the 2012 Olympic marathon.
He has also won the 2016 Chicago Marathon, the 2008
Indoor Championships 3000m), Irene Cheptai (World Cross Country Championships 2017 in Kampala) and Geoffrey Kirui (World Marathon Champion 2017 in London).
In 2007, his athletes obtained silver medals at the World Cross Country Championships (Moses Mosop), and in the World Championships Marathon (Mubarak Shami).
His athletes have won several Marathon Majors. In 2016, for the first time, two athletes coached by the same coach (Abel Kirui and Florence Kiplagat) were the winner of Chicago Marathon, one of