Joyciline Jepkosgei

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Joyciline Jepkosgei athletics

Joyciline Jepkosgei 2017 Prague Half Marathon.jpg
Joyciline Jepkosgei at the finish of
the half marathon in Prague on April 1st, 2017

nation KenyaKenya Kenya
birthday 8th December 1993 (age 26)
place of birth Kenya
Career
discipline Long distance running
status active
Medal table
Half marathon world championship 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
African Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Half marathon world championships
silver Valencia 2018 singles
silver Valencia 2018 team
 African Championships
bronze Durban 2016 10,000 m
last change: March 19, 2020

Joyciline Jepkosgei (born December 8, 1993 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner . She was the world record holder in the half marathon until February 2020 .

Athletic career

Jepkosgei has appeared internationally since 2016 when she won the Karlovy Vary half marathon in a track record time of 1:09:07 hours. At the African Championships in Durban she was third in the 10,000 meter run . She also took second place at the Prague Grand Prix that year and won the Marseille - Cassis road race .

In February 2017, Jepkoskei increased her personal best at the RAK half marathon to 1:06:08 hours and thus finished third. On April 1, 2017, she won the Prague half marathon in a world record time of 1:04:52 hours and improved the previous record of her compatriot Peres Jepchirchir by 14 seconds. In addition, she beat the existing world records over these distances with her intermediate times of 10 kilometers (30:05 minutes), 15 kilometers (45:37 minutes) and 20 kilometers (1:01:25 hours). Three weeks later she won the Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon and improved the course record there to 1:07:44 hours. On September 9th she won the Grand Prix of Prague over 10 km. With her winning time of 29:43 min she clearly undercut her record from the spring and at the same time achieved her fifth world record of the season. At the Valencia Half Marathon on October 22nd, she improved her half marathon world record by one second to 1:04:51 h.

Jepkosgei opened the 2018 season with a fifth place in 1:06:46 h in the RAK half marathon. At the Half Marathon World Championships in Valencia , she finished second in 1:06:54 h behind the Ethiopian Netsanet Gudeta and led the Kenyan team to the silver medal in the team classification. At the Great North Run in September, she finished third in 1:08:10 h. In October, she finished second in the Delhi half marathon in 1:06:56 h.

In March 2019, Jepkosgei won the New York City Half Marathon in 1:10:07 h. In April she canceled her participation in the Hamburg Marathon at short notice and instead started as a pacemaker at the London Marathon. She made her actual debut on the marathon distance in November at the New York City Marathon , which she won in 2:22:38 h.

Personal bests

World best half marathon (excerpt)

  1. 1:04:31 h, Ababel Yeshaneh , Ras al- Khaimah , February 21, 2020EthiopiaEthiopia 
  2. 1:04:49 h, Brigid Kosgei , Ra's al-Khaimah , February 21, 2020KenyaKenya 
  3. 1:04:51 h, Joyciline Jepkosgei , Valencia , October 22, 2017KenyaKenya 
  4. 1:04:52 h, Fancy Chemutai , Ra's al- Khaimah , February 9, 2018KenyaKenya 
  5. 1:04:55 h, Mary Keitany , Ras al-Khaimah , February 9, 2018KenyaKenya 
  6. 1:05:04 h, Joan Chelimo Melly , Prague , April 7, 2018KenyaKenya 
  7. 1:05:06 h, Peres Jepchirchir , Ra's al-Khaimah , February 10, 2017KenyaKenya 
  8. 1:05:07 h, Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui , Ra's al-Khaimah , February 9, 2018KenyaKenya 
  9. 1:05:09 h, Florence Kiplagat , Barcelona , February 15, 2015KenyaKenya 
  10. 1:05:15 h, Sifan Hassan , Copenhagen , September 16, 2018NetherlandsNetherlands 

Web links

Commons : Joyciline Jepkosgei  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Jepkosgei breaks four world records at Prague Half Marathon ( English ) IAAF. April 1, 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ Half marathon in Prague. Joyciline Jepkosgei breaks world records ( German ) Runnersworld. April 1, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the day of April 24, 2017 . Leichtathletik.de. April 24, 2017. Archived from the original on April 25, 2017. Retrieved on April 24, 2017.
  4. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Jepkosgei smashes world 10km record in Prague ( English ) IAAF. September 9, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
  5. ↑ Joyciline Jepkosgei's next half marathon world record . Leichtathletik.de. October 22, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  6. ↑ Mo Farah and Vivian Cheruiyot win . runnersworld.de. September 9, 2018. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  7. ↑ Phil Minshull: Debutante Gemechu clocks 1:06:50 course record at Delhi Half Marathon ( English ) IAAF. October 21, 2018. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  8. ↑ Road round-up: Cheruyiot smashes course record at Lisbon half, Kiplagat and Mokonin take convincing victories at Seoul Marathon ( English ) IAAF. March 17, 2019. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  9. ^ Cathal Dennehy: Debutante Jepkosgei and Kamworor victorious at New York City Marathon ( English ) IAAF. November 3, 2019. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Jepkosgei, Joyciline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1993