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Kaptagat is a settlement in Uasin Gishu County, in the southwestern part of Kenya. This part of the country, where the two counties of Uasin Gishu and Elgeyo Marakwet County share a border, is used by the majority of Kenyan professional long-distance runners to train for professional competition. Eliud Kipchoge, the former marathon world record holder, and the Tokyo Olympics and Rio Olympics marathon gold medalist, maintains a training camp in Kaptagat.

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The entry is geolocated on the map in KE, across 2 mapped points.

Within Vinony's link graph, Kaptagat is referenced by 48 other articles, and connects out to Kenya, time zone and geographic coordinate system.

It is catalogued under the topic Populated places in Uasin Gishu County.

Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.

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Place details

Locality
Kaptagat
Region
Elgeyo-Marakwet
Country
Kenya
Population
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Instance of
human settlement
Country
Kenya
Time zone
UTC+03:00
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{{Infobox settlement

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kaptagat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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