CAROLINE KILEL

KENYA

BIB NUMBER: 31

BIRTHDATE:  March 21, 1981

PERSONAL BEST:   31:36 (Groesbeek, 2009)

10-K HIGHLIGHTS:
26Jun10  Unive Stadsloop Appingsdam 10K  2nd  32:15
06Jun10  Zwitserloot Dak Run 10-K  1st  32:15
28Feb10 World's Best 10-K, San Juan  6th  32:20
07Jun09  Zwitserloot Dak Run 10-K  1st  31:36
26Apr09  Wurzburger Residenzlauf 10-K  2nd  32:45
19Apr09  Nike City Run, Hilversum 10-K  10th  31:57

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:
18Apr11  Boston Marathon  1st  2:22:36
31Oct10  Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon  1st  2:23:25
05Sep10  Great Scottish Run Half-Marathon  1st  1:09:11
12Jun10  Zwoelsche Half-Marathon  1st  1:09:33
06Dec09  Wincanton Montferlund Run 15-K  1st  49:57
11Oct09 IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships  4th  1:08:16
06Sep09  Great Scottish Run Half-Marathon  1st  1:09:03
10May09  BIG 25-K, Berlin  3rd  1:23:43

CAREER NOTES:
Caroline Cheptanui Kilel returns to the scene of her greatest running accomplishment, winning the 2011 Boston Marathon in mid-April. That race was not decided until the final few strides as American Desiree Davila kept up the pressure. Kilel would not yield, collapsing once victory was hers. "When we came to the last finishing [straight], and I saw the finish line, I tried to push, push, "she said."After the finish line, I fell down.”

This will be Kilel's first race since then and her first 10-K in the US, although she has had excellent results over the past few years with several victories and top finishes with times between 31:36 and 32:45.

She has been a member of two Kenyan IAAF World Half Marathon teams – fourth in 2009 – and had a top eight finish in the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Kilel was on the comeback from maternity leave as she and her husband Vincent Chepkwony have a three-year old son Travis. She hails from Bomet in the Rift Valley in Kenya and is now based in nearby Kericho.