Nephat Ngotho Kinyanjui (born 30 June 1977, in Miharati, Central Province)[1] is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in road running events including the marathon.
[1] Kinyanjui returned to Dallas and improved his best further to 2:14:35 hours, but was beaten to the title by half a minute by fellow Kenyan Elly Rono.
He was top-three at the Utica Boilermaker in July and then won the America's Finest City Half Marathon in San Diego the following month.
[6] At the 2007 Nagano race the final stages proved to be a repeat of the previous year, as the Kenyan eked out the win at the line over Andreyev.
[7] He was invited to the Beijing Marathon in October and he claimed first place with a significant new best time of 2:08:09 – over three minutes faster than he had run before.