Stanley Biwott

He began working with Italian coach Claudio Berardelli in 2006 and came seventh at that year's Carpi Marathon.^[1] He was employed as the pacemaker at the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon the following February and he finished third with a time of 1:01:20 hours behind his training partners Benson Barus and Jonathan Kosgei Kipkorir.^[2]

He headed to Brazil in 2009 and came sixth at the Pampulha Lagoon International Race, then seventh at the Saint Silvester Road Race.^[3] His first marathon win came the year after at the São Paulo Marathon and his time of 2:11:19 hours was the fastest ever on the South American soil.^[4][5] He dipped under two hours and ten minutes for the first time at the 2010 Reims à Toutes Jambes, where he was three seconds behind the winner Stephen Chebogut with a finishing time of 2:09:41 hours.^[6]

At the start of 2011 he improved his half marathon best to 1:00:23 hours in winning the Azkoitia-Azpeitia Half Marathon.^[7] At the Chuncheon Marathon he outran his teammate Jonathan Kosgei Kipkorir and won the race in a personal best of 2:07:03 hours – a course record and personal best by more than two minutes.^[8] He ended the year with a third place at the Zhuhai Half Marathon, losing out in a sprint finish.^[9]

Biwott began 2012 with his first sub-one hour half marathon; his finishing time of 59:44 minutes was enough to win the Paris Half Marathon in a course record.^[10] Reaching a new career high, he recorded a marathon best of 2:05:11 hours to win the Paris Marathon a month later. He took the lead after the halfway point and continued at a fast pace to claim the prestigious course record.^[11] In the latter half of the road racing season he won both the Beach to Beacon 10K and the Falmouth Road Race.^[12] He was a comfortable winner at the Philadelphia Half Marathon, finishing forty seconds ahead of the field.^[13]

His first race of 2013 of the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon where he finished as runner-up to Geoffrey Kipsang, running a best of 58:56 minutes to move up to tenth on the all-time lists.^[14]

At the 2014 London Marathon Biwott ran a career best time of 2:04:55 to finish in 2nd place.^[15]

In March 2015, he won the City-Pier-City-Loop half marathon in the fastest time of the season (00:59:20).^[16]

In November 2015, he won the 2015 New York City Marathon in 2:10:34.^[17]

At the 2016 London Marathon he improved his career best to 2:03:51, coming second behind Eliud Kipchoge and placing him sixth on the all-time ranking list.