Samwel Mailu

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Samwel Mailu
Personal information
Birth nameSamwel Nyamai Mailu
Nationality Kenya
Born (1993-02-07) 7 February 1993 (age 30)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)1500m: 3:54.86 (Nairobi, 2022)
5000m: 14:24.50 (Nairobi, 2022)
10,000m: 29:58.33 (Nairobi, 2022)
Half marathon: 59:19 (Riga, 2023)
Marathon: 2:05:08 (Vienna, 2023)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya
World Road Running Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Riga Half marathon

Samwel Nyamai Mailu (born 7 February 1993) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He won a bronze medal in the half marathon at the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga. [1]

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Early life

Mailu grew up the son of vegetable farmers, one of five children, in a village called Ulawani, not far from the Kenya-Tanzania border and Mount Kilimanjaro, although he himself did not live at high altitude. He only started to train at fifteen years-old and stopped running until later in life after completing a college course to become a primary school teacher. He started training seriously in 2020, and moved to a training camp in Machakos, southeast of Nairobi. [2]

Career

In June 2022, Mailu won the Hamburg half-marathon with a time of 1:01:52 despite bad weather conditions. [3] Later that year Mailu finished as runner-up at the Frankfurt Marathon running 2:07.19 despite initially only starting the race in the role of pacemaker. He had never completed a competitive marathon before. [4] [5]

Mailu set a new course record and personal best time of 2:05.08 to win the Vienna Marathon in April 2023. [6] [7] In June 2023, Mailu successfully defended his Hamburg half-marathon title. [8]

Mailu was part of a Kenyan clean-sweep of the medals, alongside Sabastian Sawe and Daniel Simiu Ebenyo in the half-marathon during the World Road Running Championships in Riga, Latvia on 1 October 2023. It meant Kenya also comfortably claimed the team title at the event. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Samwel Mailu". World Athletics. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  2. ↑ "After Vienna course record Samwel Mailu pledges to help Kenyan talents". Watch Athletics. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  3. ↑ Wafula, Abigael (25 June 2023). "Defending champion Samwel Mailu returns to Hamburg in search of successive victories" . Retrieved 3 October 2023. l
  4. ↑ Kelsall, Cristopher (25 July 2023). "Frankfurt Marathon: European silver medallist Matea Parlov Kostro and Kenyan Samwel Mailu to toe the line". Athletics Illistrated. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  5. ↑ Wenig, Jörg (23 April 2023). "Samwel Mailu crowns his anniversary with a course record, Sebastian Hendel ninth". Leichtatgletik.de. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  6. ↑ "Vienna City Marathon my biggest career win - Mailu". The-Star.co.ke. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  7. ↑ "Kenyans shine in Vienna, Hamburg Marathons". Nation.Africa. 23 April 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  8. ↑ Wafula, Abigael (25 June 2023). "Samwel Mailu leads Kenyan 1-2-3 sweep as he successfully defends Hamburg 21k title". Pulse Sports. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  9. ↑ "Confidence and good race tactics were key, says Sawe after Riga sweep". The-Star.co.ke. 2 October 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.


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