Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui

Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui
nation	Kenya
birthday	26th May 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Kericho,  Kenya
Career
Best performance	2:31:44 h (marathon) 1:05:07 h (half marathon)
status	active
last change: July 11, 2020

Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui (born May 26, 1994 in Kericho ) is a Kenyan medium and long-distance runner who competes in disciplines from 800 m to marathons and cross-country runs . She runs for the international athletics club Altay Athletics from Kazakhstan . She is the younger sister of cross-country skier Mercy Cherono Koech (* 1991).

successes

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In 2011 Chepkoech Kipkirui became the African junior cross-country champion. Over 5000 m she was African junior champion in the same year and third over 3000 m at the Junior World Championships in Lille, France .

In Palo Alto , Chepkoech Kipkirui ran the 10,000 m on May 1st, 2016 in a time of 31: 16.38 min.

On February 9, 2018, she ran the half marathon in Ras al- Khaimah in a time of 1:05:07 h.

In January 2019 she won the Houston Half Marathon in 1:05:07 h in a personal best . A year later, on January 19, 2020, she was third in the Houston Half Marathon in a time of 1:08:13 h, behind the Japanese Hitomi Niiya (1:06:36 h) and Brillian Jepkorir Kipkoech (1:08:08 h) .

Personal bests

discipline	time	date	place
800 m	2: 16.49 min	June 24, 2010	Nairobi
1500 m	4: 13.21 min	June 29, 2018	Almaty
3000 m	8: 29.05 min	4th May 2018	Doha
5000 m	14: 27.55 min	1st September 2017	Brussels
10,000 m (train)	31: 16.38 min	May 1, 2016	Palo Alto
10 km (road)	30:19 min	September 8, 2018	Prague
half marathon	1:05:07 h	February 9, 2018	Ras al-Khaimah
Marathon run	2:31:44 h	December 16, 2012	Kisumu

Web links

• Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chepkoech leads Houston Half Marathon field (January 9, 2019)