peoplepill id: daniel-njenga
DN
Kenya
1 views today
2 views this week
Daniel Njenga
Kenyan marathon runner

Daniel Njenga

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Kenyan marathon runner
Places
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Kenya, Kenya
Age
48 years
Education
Ryutsu Keizai University
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Daniel Njenga Muturi (born 7 May 1976) is a Kenyan long-distance runner, who specializes in the marathon.

He had his first successes in 1995 as he won the steeplechase gold medal at the 1995 Summer Universiade and also the Chiba International Cross Country meeting. He was based in Japan from early on in his early career and won the steeplechase at the Japanese Championships on three occasions.

Njenga turned to marathon running and made his debut in 1995 at the Saitama Marathon in Ageo, Saitama, Japan, placing first, and then coming in tenth in his second marathon at the 1999 Fukuoka Marathon. His breakthrough year came in 2002 when he was the runner-up at the Beppu-Oita Marathon and Chicago Marathon. His time of 2:06:16 hours in Chicago made him the third fastest runner in the world for 2002, behind only Khalid Khannouchi and Paul Tergat. He is known for his consistent, close finishes in the Chicago Marathon, finishing as runner-up three times and third on two occasions, between 2003 and 2007. He was the 2006 winner of the Sendai Half Marathon. He won the Tokyo International Marathon in 2004 and then the reformed Tokyo Marathon in 2007. Njenga is a featured subject in the 2007 marathon documentary Spirit of the Marathon.

Njenga was victorious at the 2009 Hokkaido Marathon and took consecutive runner-up spots at the Beppu-Ōita Marathon in 2010 and 2011.

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Kenya
1995UniversiadeFukuoka, Japan1st3000 m s'chase8:27.03
1999Fukuoka MarathonFukuoka, Japan10thMarathon2:11:49
2002Beppu-Ōita MarathonBeppu and Ōita, Japan2ndMarathon2:12:43
Chicago MarathonChicago, United States2ndMarathon2:06:16
2003Chicago MarathonChicago, United States3rdMarathon2:07:41
2004Tokyo International MarathonTokyo, Japan1stMarathon2:08:43
Chicago MarathonChicago, United States2ndMarathon2:07:44
2005Chicago MarathonChicago, United States3rdMarathon2:07:14
2006Chicago MarathonChicago, United States2ndMarathon2:07:40
2007Tokyo MarathonTokyo, Japan1stMarathon2:09:45
Chicago MarathonChicago, United States3rdMarathon2:12:45
2009Hokkaido MarathonSapporo, Japan1stMarathon2:12:03
2010Beppu-Ōita MarathonBeppu and Ōita, Japan2ndMarathon2:10:55
2011Beppu-Ōita MarathonBeppu and Ōita, Japan1stMarathon2:10:24
2014Beppu-Ōita MarathonBeppu and Ōita, Japan10thMarathon2:13:50
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Daniel Njenga is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Credits
References and sources
Daniel Njenga
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes