Ruth Kutol

Kutol is from Eldoret, Kenya. She has six sisters and two brothers,^[1] and also has 2 daughters.^[2]

Kutol won the Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale in 1998, one second off the course record.^[3] At the 2000 World Cross Country Championships she finished tenth in the long race, while the Kenyan team of which Kutol was a part won the silver medal in the team competition.^{[citation needed]}

In 2000, Kutol won the Venice Marathon,^[4] the first competitive marathon that she had run.^[2] In 2001, Kutol came second in a 5.65 km (3.51 mi) race in San Sebastián, Spain.^[5] In the same year, she came second in the Paris Marathon, losing in a sprint by one second to fellow Kenyan Florence Barsosio.^[6][7]

In 2003, Kutol won the Madrid and Venice Marathons.^[1] Later in the year, she won the Dublin Marathon in a record time of 2:27.22, which was over five minutes faster than her previous best.^[1][8] Her record time stood until 2010, when it was beaten by Russian Tatyana Aryasova.^[9] In 2004, Kutol won the Paris Half Marathon in a time of 1:11:13.^[10]

Kutol took a two-year break from competition in order to have a baby, and returned in 2007. In that year, she won the Luxembourg Marathon in a time of 2:41:26.^[2][11] In 2010, Kutol won the Tallinn Marathon.^[12] In 2011, she came third at the Kuala Lumpur Marathon.^[13] In 2012, she came 21st overall and second woman at the February Bangkok Marathon, which had been postponed from 2011 due to flooding.^[14][15]