Kaptagat
Sign in to saveKaptagat 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
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Kenya
- Located in
- Rift Valley Province
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Location
- Athletics
- References
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kaptagat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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