Edna Kiplagat

Edna Kiplagat
Edna Kiplagat 2013 at the World Championships in Moscow
Full name	Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat
nation	Kenya
birthday	1979
size	162 cm
Weight	50 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	2:19:50 h ( marathon ) 1:08:48 h ( half marathon )
society	Kimbia Athletics
Medal table
World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championship 0 × 1 × 1 × Cross Country World Championship 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships gold Daegu 2011 marathon gold Moscow 2013 marathon silver London 2017 marathon  Junior World Championships silver Sydney 1996 3000 m bronze Annecy 1998 3000 m  World Cross Country Championships gold Stellenbosch 1996 team gold Turin 1997 team
last change: August 7, 2017

Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat (born September 15, 1979 or November 15, 1979 in Burnt Forest, Uasin Gishu County ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in road running.

Career

In athletics junior world championships , she won silver over 3000 meters in 1996 and bronze in 1998. In the junior women's race at the 1996 World Cross Country Championships in Stellenbosch she was fifth and fourth at the 1997 World Cross Country Championships in Turin. Both times she won the Nations Cup with the Kenyan team.

In December 2005 she started for the first time over the 42.195 km distance, but was only tenth in 2:50:20 hours in the Las Vegas Marathon . In the following two years she started with more success on shorter distances: In 2006 she won the Virginia Beach Half Marathon and came second in the Philadelphia Half Marathon and the San José Half Marathon . In 2007 she won Bay to Breakers , defended her title in Virginia Beach and finished third in Philadelphia.

Motherhood 2009

In 2010 she returned to competition after a baby break. In the spring, she won the Los Angeles Marathon . On the track, which was not suitable for the best list because of its gradient, she achieved a time of 2:25:38 h and secured a special bonus of US $ 100,000 because she reached the finish before the winner of the men's field, which started 18:47 minutes later. The lead at the start resulted from the difference between the respective course records for men and women. A second place in Freihofer's Run for Women was followed by victory in the Boilermaker Road Race . She was third at the Beach to Beacon 10K and the Falmouth Road Race . In the fall, she crowned the season with a win at the New York City Marathon in a time of 2:28:20 h.

World Championships 2011

In 2011 she finished second in the New York City Half Marathon with a personal best of 1:09:00 h. She finished third in the London Marathon and significantly increased her best time to 2:20:46 h. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , she won the marathon race in a time of 2:28:43 h in front of her compatriots Priscah Jeptoo and Sharon Jemutai Cherop .

In the following year, the 1.62 m tall athlete qualified with a second place in the London Marathon, in which she covered the distance in 2:19:50 h, for the Olympic Games in London in 2012 and finished 20th in the Olympic marathon competition there . Space. She previously won the New York Mini 10K .

World Championships 2013

At the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow , she became the first woman to defend the world championship title in the marathon.

In 2014 she won the London Marathon with a time of 2:20:21 h. In June she won the half marathon in Olomouc in 1:08:53 h and on October 5, 2014 in 1:07:57 h, the Great Scottish Run .

In 2015 she repeated her success from last year at the Great Scottish Run.

In April 2017 she won the Boston Marathon with her winning time of 2:21:52 h .

Personal

Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat is trained by her husband Gilbert Cheruiyot Koech , himself a successful long-distance runner, and belongs to the Kimbia Athletics club . Until 2008 both belonged to Dieter Hogen's KIMbia group . She is the mother of two children, Carlos and Wendy .

Sporting successes

Personal bests

• 3000 m: 8: 53.06 min, August 22, 1996, Sydney
• 5000 m : 15: 57.3 min, July 1st, 2006, Nairobi
• 10,000 m : 33: 27.0 min, June 16, 2007, Nairobi
• 10K road run: 31:06 min, June 26, 2016, Boston
• 15k road run: 47:57 min, July 11, 2010, Utica
• Half marathon : 1:07:57 h, October 5, 2014, Glasgow
• Marathon : 2:19:50 h, April 22, 2012, London

Web links

Commons : Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Edna Kiplagat in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Edna Kiplagat in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
• Profile on www.london2012.com , accessed August 12, 2012

Footnotes

1. ↑ profile on www.london2012.com ( Memento of 30 July 2012 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 12, 2012
2. ^ IAAF: Edna Kiplagat runs to Half Marathon victory in Virginia Beach . September 4, 2006
3. ^ IAAF: Gebremariam and Kiplagat cruise to New York victories . November 7, 2010
4. ^ IAAF: Kiplagat Owns Central Park at 40th Anniversary women's 10K . June 9, 2012
5. ↑ Kenyan Kirui wins Boston Marathon (April 17, 2017)