Pamela Jelimo

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Jelimo at the Bislett Games 2008

Pamela Jelimo (also written Chelimo ; * December 5, 1989 in Kapsabet ) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner and Olympic champion (2008) in the 800-meter run . With her best time of 1: 54.01 over the 800 meters, Jelimo is the third fastest runner in history.

Jelimo started at age 13 in her home in Kapsabet with the Running . In 2007 she finished fifth in the 400-meter run at the Kenyan Championships . She won the Junior African Championships in 54.93 s. After no breakthrough over this distance was expected from her times, she planned to switch to the 800-meter route for the Olympic season and adjusted her training accordingly.

Jelimo made her first start over the new distance in April 2008 when she qualified for the African Championships in 2: 01.02 min . On May 4th, 2008, she won the Africa Championship in 1: 58.70 min in Addis Ababa ahead of Maria de Lurdes Mutola . On May 25, she set the junior world record in Hengelo at 1: 55.76 minutes. At the start of the Golden League in Berlin on June 1st at the ISTAF Mutola's African record she improved from 1994 to 1: 54.99 minutes, and on July 18 in Saint-Denis she undercut this record with 1: 54.97 minutes. After four Golden League meetings in the 2008 season, apart from Pamela Jelimo, only the high jumper Blanka Vlašić competed for the jackpot of one million US dollars. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Jelimo won the gold medal with a new junior world record of 1: 54.87 minutes ahead of her teammate Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei . On August 29, 2008, Jelimo improved her own junior and African record again at the Golden League meeting Weltklasse Zürich in Zurich . There it ran a time of 1: 54.01 min and thus undercut its record by 86 hundredths of a second. On September 6, 2008, Jelimo won the sixth and last Golden League meeting of the season with the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels , thus securing the sole jackpot of over one million US dollars, as the high jumper who was tied before this degree Blanka Vlašić could not win in her discipline.

The 1.70 m tall Jelimo, for which the name Kapsabet express is used as a nickname in the press , was also part of the Kenyan team for the 2012 Olympic Games and took third place in the 800-meter course in the Olympic final in London . Rank.

Jemilo , who is married to Peter Murray , is trained by Gregory Kilonzo and Benjamin Engelhart at club level for the Kenya Police .

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SURNAME Jelimo, Pamela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chelimo, Pamela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan middle distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Kapsabet , Kenya