Lornah Kiplagat

Lornah Kiplagat
Lornah Kiplagat at the FBK Games, 2007
nation	Netherlands
birthday	1st May 1974 (age 46)
place of birth	Kabiemit (Elgeyo-Marakwet County), Kenya
size	165 cm
Weight	49 kg
Career
Best performance	1:06:25 h (half marathon) 2:22:22 h (marathon)
society	Atletiek Vereniging Hylas, Alkmaar
Trainer	Volker Wagner, Pieter Langerhorst
status	resigned
End of career	2012
last change: April 3, 2020

Lornah Kiplagat (born May 1, 1974 in Kabiemit , Elgeyo-Marakwet County ) is a former Dutch long-distance runner of Kenyan origin and four-time world champion. She was particularly successful in cross-country running and on distances from 3000 m to marathons . In October 2007 she ran a world record of 66:25 minutes over the half marathon route . Kiplagat is a three-time Olympian (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012). With a height of 1.65 m, she had a competition weight of 49 kg.

Career

Kiplagat had lived in the Netherlands since 1999 and started working for that country since she took citizenship in 2003. Her trainer was her husband, the Dutchman Pieter Langerhorst . Before she was looked after by the German trainer Volker Wagner , among others .

After her active time as an athlete, Kiplagat has settled back in the highlands of western Kenya in the so-called "home of the champions" Iten and runs a High Altitude Training Center there. She founded the Lornah Kiplagat Sports Academy foundation to promote young girls in school and sport. Kiplagat launched its own fashion label and is involved in AIDS education.

Sports career

Lornah Kiplagat first drew attention to herself when she won both the Los Angeles Marathon and the 25 km from Berlin in 1997 and 1998 .
In 1999 she won the Amsterdam Marathon , in 2000 she was second in the Chicago Marathon and in 2001 fourth in the Boston Marathon . In 2002 she won the Osaka Women's Marathon , and the following year she set her personal best of 2:22:22 h in fourth.

In the same year she ran the New York City Marathon , now starting for her new country, as the third Dutch record in 2:23:43 h.

2004 Olympic Games

She was also successful on the track: at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis , she finished fourth in the 10,000-meter run in her personal best of 30: 12.53 min and fifth at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens over the same distance .

In 2005 she won the Rotterdam Marathon , came second at the World Half Marathon Championships in Edmonton and was European champion in cross country .

In 2006 she was second over the long distance and fifth over the short distance at the World Cross Country Championships . In autumn she set a world record over 20 kilometers at the 2006 World Road Running Championships in Debrecen with 1:03:21 h. A calf injury prevented participation in the 2007 World Championships in Osaka .

In March 2007 she became the cross-country world champion in Kenya . At the 2007 Road Running World Championships in Udine , she defended her title in the new half marathon world record time of 1:06:25 h and improved her world record from the previous year to 1:02:57 h at the 20 km mark. Kiplagat held the world record in the half marathon for over three years, until on February 18, 2011 the Kenyan Mary Keitany improved her time in the RAK half marathon in Ra's al- Khaimah by 35 seconds to 1:05:50 h.

Olympic Games 2008 and 2012

Kiplagat was able to qualify for the second time for the Olympic Games in 2008 and finished seventh in Rio de Janeiro over 10,000 meters. In 2012 she started in the marathon at her third Olympic Games in London . She was also in the top group up to km 18, but had to give up after 28 kilometers due to pain in her right knee.

Personal bests

• 3000 m , 8: 52.82 min, Leiden (Netherlands), June 10, 2000
• 5000 m , 14: 56.43 min, Stockholm (Sweden), August 5, 2003
• 10,000 m , 30: 12.53 min, Stade de France , Saint Denis (France), August 23, 2003, 15th place in the all-time world best list (as of March 30, 2020)
• Half marathon , 1: 06.25 h, Udine (Italy), October 14, 2007 , place 35 of the all-time world best list (as of July 11, 2020)
• Marathon , 2:22:22 h, Osaka, Japan, January 26, 2003

successes

Web links

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

• Web site Lornah Kiplagat (Engl.)
• Lornah Kiplagat in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr (French)
• Athlete portrait ( memento from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the World Marathon Majors website
• Report on their victory at the 2006 Road Running World Championships ( memento from October 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on the IAAF website
• Report on their victory at the 2007 Road Running World Championships ( memento from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the IAAF website

Individual evidence

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