Alice Aprot Nawowuna

Alice Aprot
Full name	Alice Aprot Nawowuna
nation	Kenya
birthday	2nd January 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Kenya
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	29: 53.51 min (10,000 m)
status	active
Medal table
World Cross Country Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Africa Games 1 × 0 × 1 × African Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × African cross-country championships 3 × 0 × 1 ×
World Cross Country Championships gold Kampala 2017 team silver Kampala 2017 singles  Junior World Championships bronze Moncton 2010 5000 m  Africa Games gold Brazzaville 2015 10,000 m bronze Brazzaville 2015 5000 m African Championships gold Durban 2016 10,000 m silver Asaba 2018 10,000 m African cross-country championships gold Kampala 2014 team bronze Kampala 2014 singles gold Yaoundé 2016 singles gold Yaoundé 2016 team
last change: April 5, 2019

Alice Aprot Nawowuna (born January 2, 1994 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner . Her preferred disciplines are 5000 and 10,000 meters as well as cross and road runs up to 15 kilometers and 10 miles respectively.

Career

Back in 2010, the then 16-year-old finished third in the 5000 meter run at the Junior World Championships in Canada.

At the African Cross Country Championships 2014 in Kampala , she won the bronze medal in the senior race and the gold medal with the team.

Alice Aprot was third at the All Africa Games in Brazzaville in 2015 in the 5000 meter and won the 10,000 meter run. With a time of 14: 39.56 minutes, which she ran in Brussels in 2015 , Alice Aprot is in the all-time world rankings over the 5000 meter distance.

In 2016 she won the title of African cross-country champion and also won over 10,000 meters at the African athletics championships. She took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and reached fourth place in the 10,000 meter final.

At the 2017 World Championships in London , she reached fourth place in the 10,000 meter final run, almost a minute behind and a time of 31: 11.86 minutes. With her time of 29:53:51 min achieved in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, where she also finished fourth, she would have become world champion in London 2017.

Private

Alice Aprot comes from a family with eight children. She is the younger sister of the cross-country world champion Joseph Ebuya (* 1987).

Personal bests

route	time	place	date
3000 m	8: 53.55 min	Doha	May 9, 2014
5000 m	14: 39.56 min	Brussels	September 9, 2016
10,000 m	29: 53.51 min	Rio de Janeiro	August 12, 2016
10 km road run	31:02 min	Berlin	October 11, 2015
15 km road run	48:23 min	Zaandam	18th September 2016
10 miles	51:59 min	Zaandam	18th September 2016

Sporting successes

Web links

• Alice Aprot Nawowuna in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete profile with the Association of Road Racing Statisticians

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press report from Aprot's victory at Damloop in Zaandam , from: iaaf.com, September 18, 2016. (English)
2. ↑ Report on the title win Aprots in Durban , from: iaaf.com, July 22, 2016. (English)
3. ^ Report from the African Cross Country Championships 2016 , from: iaaf.org, March 12, 2016. (English)