Joyce Chepkirui

Joyce Chepkirui
Joyce Chepkirui in the 2013 London Marathon
nation	Kenya
birthday	20th August 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Kenya
Career
Best performance	1:07:03 h (half marathon) 2:24:11 h (marathon)
status	blocked
End of career	2019
last change: December 11, 2019

Joyce Chepkirui (born August 20, 1988 ) is a former Kenyan middle and long distance runner .

Career

In 2009 she won the Motril half marathon and the Córdoba-Almodóvar half marathon. The following year she won the Granollers Half Marathon, among other places . At the Half Marathon World Championships in Nanning , she was fifth and won gold with the Kenyan team.

In 2011 she won the Lake Maggiore half marathon and finished fifth in the Prague half marathon . Then she won the Göteborgsvarvet , the Bogotá Half Marathon and the Tilburg Ladies Run with the world best time over 10 km. At the Pan-African Games in Maputo , she won silver over 1500 meters .

In 2012 she came second in the World's Best 10K . In March she became African cross-country champion and set a course record in the Prague half marathon (67:03 min).

At the 2014 African Athletics Championships in Marrakech , she won the gold medal in the 10,000-meter run. On October 18, 2015 she won the Amsterdam Marathon in 2:24:11 h.

In July 2019, the then 30-year-old was temporarily suspended by the independent AIU integrity commission of the IAAF World Athletics Association for violating the anti-doping rules.

Personal bests

• 1500 m: 4: 08.80 min, July 16, 2011, Nairobi
• 10,000 m : 31: 26.10 min, December 10, 2011, Melbourne
• 10 km road run : 30:38 min, September 4, 2011, Tilburg
• Half marathon : 1:07:03 h, March 31, 2012, Prague
• Marathon: 2:24:11 h, October 18, 2015, Amsterdam

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  Look at "Hill Ten" (Iten), this is where Joyce Chepkirui's career began

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  Entrance to Iten

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  Hervis half marathon 2012, victory in 67:03 min.

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  Joyce Chepkirui in Prague , 2012

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  10,000 m of women

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  10,000 m final (from left): Kayoko Fukushi , Shitaye Eshete , Beleynesh Oljira , Sally Jepkosgei Kipyego , Tirunesh Dibaba , Werknesh Kidane , Joyce Chepkirui, Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot

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  London Marathon 2013

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  2016 Boston Half Marathon, leadership at mile 19

Web links

Commons : Joyce Chepkirui  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Joyce Chepkirui in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Mutai and Chepkirui the winners in Bogota ( Memento of September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). August 1, 2011
2. ^ IAAF: Langat and Chepkirui take African XC titles in Cape Town ( Memento of March 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). March 19, 2012
3. ↑ Doping: Again two athletes from Kenya suspended (July 18, 2019)