Lydia Cheromei

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Lydia Cheromei at the 2008 Amsterdam Marathon

Lydia Cheromei (born May 11, 1977 in the Baringo district ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .

Life

At first she was successful as a cross-country and track runner . She was junior world champion at the 1991 Cross Country World Championships , fourth at the 2000 World Cross Country Championships , and in 2001 she won the bronze medal. In 1992 and 1993 she was African runner-up in the 10,000-meter run . Over 5000 m she was fifth at the World Athletics Championships in 1997 and sixth at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. She was twice a Kenyan champion in cross-country as well as over 5000 and 10,000 m.

She had her first major success in road running in 1997 at the Swiss Women's Run over 5 km, when she set a course record of 14:58 minutes, which is still in place today. In 2000 she repeated her victory there.

After a break from competition of three years, she returned in 2004: She won the Rotterdam Half Marathon , came second at the Half Marathon World Championships in New Delhi and missed the world record by just five seconds when she won the Zevenheuvelenloop over 15 km.

On February 24, 2005, she was given a doping test in Eldoret that showed clomiphene . After a two-year ban for violating the doping rules, she returned to competition in 2008. In the Rotterdam half marathon she set a course record with 1:08:35 h, and in her first competition over the marathon distance she won the Amsterdam marathon in 2:25:57 h.

In 2009 Cheromei finished second in the Rotterdam Marathon and fifth in the Toronto Waterfront Marathon . She also won the Bogotá half marathon . The following year she finished ninth in the Delhi Half Marathon . At the beginning of 2011 she finished second in the Dubai Marathon in 2:23:01 h. In the further course of the season she improved the course records at the Prague Half Marathon , the Prague Marathon and Marseille - Cassis and was fifth in the Delhi Half Marathon.

In 2012 she finished sixth in Dubai and second in the Prague Half Marathon.

Best times

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Footnotes

  1. gbrathletics.com: Kenyan Championships
  2. ^ IAAF: Near World record misses at 15km for Sihine and Cheromei ( Memento of November 22, 2004 in the Internet Archive ). November 21, 2004
  3. ^ IAAF: Doping Rule Violation ( Memento of February 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). January 11, 2007
  4. ^ IAAF: Kirui 2:07 and Cheromei 2:25 debut - Double Kenyan victory in Amsterdam ( Memento of October 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). October 19, 2008
  5. ^ IAAF: Limo and Cheromei shatter course records at Prague Half Marathon ( Memento of April 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). April 2, 2011
  6. ^ IAAF: Cheromei smashes women's Prague Marathon course record ( Memento of May 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). May 8, 2011
  7. ^ IAAF: Tsegay and Cheromei crush course records in Marseille-Cassis Classic ( Memento of November 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). October 30, 2011