Brigid Kosgei

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Brigid Kosgei athletics

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Brigid Jepcheschir Kosgei
at the 2018 London Marathon

Full name Brigid Jepcheschir Kosgei
nation KenyaKenya Kenya
birthday 20th February 1994 (age 26)
place of birth Kenya
Career
Best performance 1:04:49 h (half marathon)
2:14:04 h (marathon)
status active
Medal table
World Marathon Majors 3 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
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silver Chicago 2017 marathon
silver London 2018 marathon
gold Chicago 2018 marathon
gold London 2019 marathon
gold Chicago 2019 marathon
last change: February 25, 2020

Brigid Jepcheschir Kosgei , also Brigid Jepchirchir Kosgei (born February 20, 1994 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in road running.

Career

In 2015, it won the Porto Marathon in 2:47:59 h at its premiere over 42.195 km .

The following year she won the Milan Marathon in 2:27:45 h and came second in the Lisbon Marathon in 2:24:45 h. At the end of the season she won the Honolulu Marathon and the San Silvestre Vallecana .

In 2017 she won the half marathon of the Lake Maggiore Marathon and was eighth in the Boston Marathon . After a victory in the Bogotá half marathon and a third place in the Copenhagen half marathon, she climbed to 2:20:22 h in the Chicago marathon and only had to admit defeat to Tirunesh Dibaba . In Honolulu, she improved Lyubov Denissova's eleven-year-old course record by more than five minutes to 2:22:15 h.

She started the 2018 season with a seventh place in the RAK half marathon . At the London Marathon she finished second behind Vivian Cheruiyot in 2:20:13 hours . She also finished second in the Bogotá Half Marathon and the Great North Run . In October she won the Chicago Marathon in a new personal best of 2:18:35 h. At the end of the season, she won the San Silvestre Vallecana in Madrid for the second time since 2016, setting a new course record with 29:54 minutes.

Kosgei opened the 2019 season in January with a win in the Houston Marathon half marathon . Her winning time of 1:05:50 h was the fastest half marathon time ever run by a woman on US soil. Almost two months later, she won the first Bahrain half marathon in Manama in 1:05:28 h. At the end of April, she won the London Marathon in a fastest time of 2:18:20 hours, almost two minutes ahead of her compatriot Vivian Cheruiyot . After a tactical start, she ran the second half faster than any other marathon runner in 1:06:42 hours . In the further course of the year Kosgei won the Great North Run in 1:04:28 h, on the course that was not suitable for the record she ran 23 seconds faster than world record holder Joyciline Jepkosgei . On October 13, she won the Chicago Marathon in 2:14:04 h and broke Paula Radcliffe's 16-year-old world record (2:15:25 h).

In February 2020 Kosgei stayed in the half marathon in Ra's al-Khaimah with 1:04:49 h, even over this distance, just below the previous world record time (1:04:51 h), but was defeated by Ethiopian Ababel after eleven wins in a row Yeshaneh , who improved the world record to 1:04:31 h.

Personal bests

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IAAF: Amlosom and Kosgei enjoy successful farewell to 2016 in Madrid . January 1, 2017
  2. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Farah and Kosgei notch convincing Chicago Marathon victories. In: iaaf.org. October 7, 2018, accessed January 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Emeterio Valiente: Kiplimo clocks 26:41 over 10km in Madrid while Kosgei and Obiri crack 30. In: iaaf.org. December 31, 2018, accessed January 21, 2019 .
  4. ^ Road round-up: Kosgei sets North American all-comers' record at Houston Half, Alemu and Lagat triumph in Mumbai. In: iaaf.org. January 20, 2019, accessed January 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Chaos Reigns at Inaugural Bahrain Night Half Marathon: Jemal Yimer Costs Himself $ 75K by Stopping Early as Elites Dodge Cars & Pedestrians. In: letsrun.com. March 15, 2019, accessed April 28, 2019 .
  6. ^ Kipchoge cracks course record in London with second-fastest time in history. In: iaaf.org. April 28, 2019, accessed April 28, 2019 .
  7. ^ Kosgei and Farah power to Great North Run titles. In: worldathletics.org. September 8, 2019, accessed February 25, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Brigid Kosgei runs a world record. In: faz.net . October 13, 2019, accessed October 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ethiopia's Ababel Yeshaneh Upsets Brigid Kosgei and Smashes Half Marathon World Record at 2020 RAK Half Marathon. In: letsrun.com. February 21, 2020, accessed on February 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kosgei, Brigid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kosgei, Brigid Jepcheschir (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1994