Isabella Ochichi

Isabella Ochichi ( Isabella Bosibori Ochichi ; born October 28, 1979 in Kisii , Nyanza Province ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .

First, she competed in road races , finished eighth at the 2001 World Half Marathon Championships and won gold with the Kenyan team.

In 2002 she won bronze at the World Cross Country Championships on the short distance, and the following year she finished fourth. At the World Athletics Championships in 2003 in Paris / Saint-Denis, she was sixth in the 5000 meter run .

In 2004 she finished fifth on the short course of the World Cross Country Championships, and in the Carlsbad 5000 road race she covered the 5 km in 14:53 minutes, only two seconds slower than Paula Radcliffe in her world best time at the time. At the 2004 Golden League meeting in Paris , she won the 3,000 meter run in 8: 31.32 minutes, which was also the world's best time for the year.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she won the silver medal over 5000 meters over 5000 meters in 14: 48.19 minutes behind Meseret Defar (ETH) and in front of Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH).

In 2005 she was at the World Cross Country Championships. In 2005 she was third on the short and fifth on the long distance and came in eighth place at the World Championships in Helsinki over 5000 meters.

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne she won over 5000 meters, and at the African Championships of the same year she was fourth over 5000 meters and second over 10,000 meters .

In 2015 she won the Cape Town Marathon with a course record in 2:30:20 h.

Isabella Ochichi is 1.52 m tall and has a competition weight of 41 kg.

Web links

• Isabella Ochichi in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes ( Memento from July 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), August 19, 2004 (updated on March 27, 2006)