Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge

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Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge (right) at the 2012 Olympics

Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge (born June 10, 1986 in Nyandarua District ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in obstacle running.

Career

Since 2004 Njoroge has achieved first international successes in the junior sector. At the 2004 Junior World Championships in Athletics in Grosseto she was fourth in the obstacle course. She achieved the same placement in the junior women's race at the 2005 World Cross Country Championships in Saint-Galmier, which contributed to the Kenyan team's victory in the national championship. Also in 2005 she was Junior African Champion in the 3000 meter run and in the obstacle course.

In the adult area, Njoroge first appeared at the 2006 Cross Country World Championships in Fukuoka, where she finished twelfth in the endurance race and second with the team. At the Pan-African Games in 2007 in Algiers and at the African Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa in 2008 , she was fifth in the obstacle course. Two years later she improved by one place at the African Athletics Championships in Nairobi . She won her first individual medal a short time later at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi .

At the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, Njoroge finished fourth in the obstacle course, despite losing a shoe during the final.

Top performances

  • 3000 m: 8: 48.16 min, August 30, 2008, Rovereto
  • 5000 m : 15: 17.03 min, May 15, 2011, Shanghai
  • Obstacle course: 9: 16.94 min, May 6, 2011, Doha

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF: Women's 3000m Steeplechase - Final - World lead gives gold to Zaripova ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English), August 30, 2011