Nicholas Manza Kamakya (born 1 January 1985) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in road running events, including marathons.
He was the 2007 winner of the Boilermaker Road Race 15K. [1] In 2009 he came second at the Prague Half Marathon with a personal best of 1:00:09 hours, won the Göteborgsvarvet, was second at the Beijing Marathon. [2] and won the Montferland Run, missing Haile Gebrselassie record by only two seconds. [3]
He ran at the 2010 Rome Marathon and finished in sixth place. [4] In 2011, he was the runner-up at the Los Angeles Marathon, ending the race with a time of 2:09:26, which was almost three minutes after the race winner Markos Geneti. [5] Manza won the Gold Coast Marathon in 2011, with a new race record of 2:10:01. [6] He improved his personal best time to 2:06:34 hours at the 2011 Amsterdam Marathon, finishing in fourth place. [7] He entered the 2011 Honolulu Marathon, but withdrew early on in the race due to pain in his Achilles tendon. [8] He ran at the Lake Biwa Marathon in March 2012, but did not finish this race either. [9] At run of 2:08:28 brought him fourth place at the 2012 Berlin Marathon. [10]
Nicholas Manza Kamakya (born 1 January 1985) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in road running events, including marathons.
He was the 2007 winner of the Boilermaker Road Race 15K. [1] In 2009 he came second at the Prague Half Marathon with a personal best of 1:00:09 hours, won the Göteborgsvarvet, was second at the Beijing Marathon. [2] and won the Montferland Run, missing Haile Gebrselassie record by only two seconds. [3]
He ran at the 2010 Rome Marathon and finished in sixth place. [4] In 2011, he was the runner-up at the Los Angeles Marathon, ending the race with a time of 2:09:26, which was almost three minutes after the race winner Markos Geneti. [5] Manza won the Gold Coast Marathon in 2011, with a new race record of 2:10:01. [6] He improved his personal best time to 2:06:34 hours at the 2011 Amsterdam Marathon, finishing in fourth place. [7] He entered the 2011 Honolulu Marathon, but withdrew early on in the race due to pain in his Achilles tendon. [8] He ran at the Lake Biwa Marathon in March 2012, but did not finish this race either. [9] At run of 2:08:28 brought him fourth place at the 2012 Berlin Marathon. [10]