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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Kenyan athletes. ... Pages in category "Kenyan female athletes" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 ...
Pages in category "Kenyan female long-distance runners" The following 199 pages are in this category, out of 199 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On 10 August at the Monaco Diamond League, Kipyegon came within 0.3 s of Dibaba's world record with 3:50.37 to set her new Kenyan record and the second-fastest performance in history at the time. She split 60.5 / 62.1 / 62.1 / 45.67 (last 400 m in 61.3 s) and as of August 2022 held six of the thirteen fastest women's 1500 m marks in history.
The number of Kenyan women winning Olympic medals has risen dramatically, from their first in 1996 to more than half the Kenyan medals in 2016 (seven). Increasingly, Kenya-born athletes are immigrating to compete in the Olympics for other countries, most notably Bahrain.
She is from Kapenguria, Kenya and moved to the United States to compete in the collegiate system for the University of Alabama. [2] On 19 March 2023 before being recruited for Alabama, she had already run 14:40 for a road 5K run at the Semi Marathon de Lille, faster than the U.S. collegiate record for the same distance on the track. [1] "
It has educated Kenyan athletes about the consequences of doping, drastically increased out-of-competition testing for Kenyan runners and bolstered the country’s once-nonexistent anti-doping system.
She competed for Kenya at the 2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres in Budapest. [4] She was selected to compete for Kenya at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships. [5] She ran a personal best indoors time of 2:00.80 to qualify for the semi-final, and lowered it to 1:59.65 to qualify for the final.
Running for the Kenyan Defence Force, she ran 32:23.11 to qualify for the 2019 African Games in the 10,000m in Rabat in August 2019. [2] In March 2022, she won the half marathon in Rome, running 1:06:03, the fastest half marathon ever ran on Italian soil by a woman. [3] In August 2022, she won the Buenos Aires half marathon. [4]