Pamela Chepchumba
Pamela Chepchumba (born March 8, 1979 in Kapsait , Rift Valley ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .
As a 13-year-old, her association sent her to the World Cross Country Championships , in which she participated four times as a junior, with a second place in 1993 as the best placement. In the second half of the 1990s she concentrated on her schooling and did not return to the national team until 2000.
In 2000 and 2002 she was fifth at the World Half Marathon Championships . In 2001 she was fifth in the World Cross Country Championships , in 2002 ninth.
She was also successful in road races in Germany. In 1998 and 1999 she won the night of Borgholzhausen . In 2001, when she won the Paderborn Easter run , she set her best time over 10 km with 31:27 minutes.
She hit the headlines in 2003 when she tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) on the eve of the World Cross Country Championships . This was the first time a Kenyan athlete was involved in a Category A doping case (EPO and steroids ). After the B-sample also showed traces of EPO, it was banned by its association for two years.
After that time she turned to the marathon . In 2006 she was third in the Paris Marathon in 2:29:48 h, then second in the Beijing Marathon .
The following year she was sixth at the World Cross Country Championships, won bronze at the 2007 World Road Running Championships in her half marathon best time of 1:08:06 h and won the Milan Marathon in 2:25:36 h. In 2008 she finished second in the Hamburg Marathon and in Milan.
Pamela Chepchumba comes from a family with ten siblings. Her younger brother Nicholas Kipruto Koech began a career as a road runner in 2006. In 2000 she married her colleague Boaz Kimaiyo , with whom she has two daughters. Volker Wagner acted as her trainer and manager at times .
Web links
- Pamela Chepchumba in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes ( Memento from July 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), November 1, 2007
Footnotes
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Pamela Chepchumba case - EPO doping in Kenya? May 29, 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chepchumba, Pamela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kapsait ( Rift Valley ) |