Florence Kiplagat

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Florence Kiplagat at the Berlin Marathon 2011

Florence Jebet Kiplagat (born February 27, 1987 in Kapkitony , Keiyo District ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .

Life

She started running after middle school in hopes of receiving a scholarship to the United States. Although this did not materialize, she was nominated for the World Junior Athletics Championships in Beijing in 2006, where she won silver in the 5000 meter run .

The following year she was fifth at the Cross Country World Championships in Mombasa and won the silver medal with the Kenyan team. She withdrew from a successful track season in which she improved her 5000 meter time to 14: 40.74 minutes because of a pregnancy. After giving birth to a daughter in March 2008, she returned to the 2008/09 cross-country running season. A victory in the Kenyan elimination race for the World Championships was followed by the gold medal at the Cross Country World Championships in Amman , where she prevailed on the final climb against her compatriot Linet Chepkwemoi Masai . At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin , she was twelfth in the 10,000 meter run .

In 2010 she won the Lille half marathon on her debut over this distance . Just over a month later, she won the title at the World Half Marathon Championships in Nanning. In 2011, she started the Boston Marathon for the first time over the 42.195 km distance, but had to give up. After triumphs in the Sapporo half marathon and the Carinthia half marathon , she managed a start-to-finish victory in the Berlin marathon , defeating Irina Mikitenko and world record holder Paula Radcliffe .

In 2013 she won the Berlin Marathon for the second time after 2011 in 2:21:13 h . On February 16, 2014, Kiplagat achieved her greatest success so far when she improved the previous half marathon world record by 38 seconds at the Barcelona half marathon in 1:05:12 h.

On October 11, 2015, she won the Chicago Marathon in 2:23:33 hours.

Florence Kiplagat is 1.55 m tall and weighs 42 kg. She has been married to fellow runner Moses Cheruiyot Mosop since 2007 . She has been employed by the Kenyan police since 2007 and moved to manager Gianni Demadonna and trainer Renato Canova in 2008 , after having previously worked for Jos Hermens ' company Global Sports . Your uncle William Kiplagat is a successful marathon runner.

successes

date event place discipline Time (h) space
24 Mar 2007 Cross Country World Championships 2007 KenyaKenya Mombasa 8 kilometers 0:27:26 5
28 Mar 2009 Cross Country World Championships 2009 JordanJordan Amman 8 kilometers 0:26:13 1
04th Sep 2010 Lille half marathon FranceFrance Lille half marathon 1:07:40 1
Oct 16, 2010 Half Marathon World Championships 2010 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Nanning half marathon 1:08:24 1
Aug 21, 2011 Carinthia is running AustriaAustria Klagenfurt am Wörthersee half marathon 1:08:02 1
25 Sep 2011 Berlin Marathon 2011 GermanyGermany Berlin marathon 2:19:44 1
Feb. 26, 2012 Roma - Ostia ItalyItaly Rome & Ostia (Rome) half marathon 1:06:38 1
Apr 22, 2012 London Marathon 2012 United KingdomUnited Kingdom London marathon 2:20:57 4th
Feb 15, 2013 RAK half marathon United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Ras al-Khaimah half marathon 1:07:13 5
29 Sep 2013 Berlin Marathon 2013 GermanyGermany Berlin marathon 2:21:13 1
Feb 16, 2014 Barcelona half marathon SpainSpain Barcelona half marathon 1:05:12  WR 1
Apr 13, 2014 London Marathon 2014 United KingdomUnited Kingdom London marathon 2:20:24 2
Feb 15, 2015 Barcelona half marathon SpainSpain Barcelona half marathon 1:05:09  WR 1
Oct 11, 2015 Chicago Marathon 2015 United StatesUnited States Chicago marathon 2:23:33 1
Feb 14, 2016 Barcelona half marathon SpainSpain Barcelona half marathon 1:09:19 1
Apr 24, 2016 London Marathon 2016 United KingdomUnited Kingdom London marathon 2:23:39 3
0Oct 9, 2016 2016 Chicago Marathon United StatesUnited States Chicago marathon 2:21:23 1

Personal bests

Web links

Commons : Florence Kiplagat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Kiplagat commands the heights - Amman 2009 ( Memento of March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). March 29, 2009
  2. ^ IAAF: Fast Half Marathon debut for F. Kiplagat in Lille ( Memento of September 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). September 6, 2010
  3. ^ IAAF: Kiplagat kicks to gold - Women's Race - Nanning 2010 ( Memento of October 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). October 16, 2010
  4. ^ IAAF: Kiprop and Kiplagat take home rare double Half Marathon champs victory - Nanning 2010 ( Memento of October 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). October 16, 2010
  5. ^ IAAF: Njui and Kiplagat win in Sapporo ( Memento from July 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). July 3, 2011
  6. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : In Austria no woman ran so fast ( Memento from October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). August 22, 2011
  7. ^ Frank Bachner: Berlin Marathon: Accidentally won . In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 25, 2011
  8. ↑ HDsports.at: Madness: Kenyan pulverizes half marathon world record . February 16, 2014
  9. ^ IAAF: A runner by default, Kiplagat now targets the ultimate prize - Amman 2009 ( Memento of March 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). March 25, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Kiplagat, Florence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiplagat, Florence Jebet (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Kapkitony , Keiyo District