Priscah Jepleting Cherono

Priscah Jepleting Cherono medal table
Cherono (right) at the 2007 World Championships
Long distance runner
Kenya
World championships
bronze	2007 Osaka	5000 m
World Cross Country Championships
silver	2006 Fukuoka	Short haul
African Championships
silver	2004 Brazzaville	5000 m

Priscah Jepleting Cherono (born Ngetich ; born June 27, 1980 in Kamuiywa , Nandi County ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .

At the 1997 World Cross Country Championships in Turin, she won silver in the junior women's race.

In 2003 she was eleventh on the short distance at the Cross Country World Championships in Avenches and won gold with the Kenyan team. The following year she won silver over 5000 m at the African Athletics Championships in Brazzaville . In 2005 she came fourth at the World Cross Country Championship in Saint-Galmier and won silver with the team. At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki she was seventh over 5000 m. In 2006 silver medals followed in the individual and team competitions at the Cross Country World Championships in Fukuoka ; she also won the Giro Media Blenio .

In 2007 she finished seventh at the Cross Country World Championships in Mombasa and again won silver with the team. At the World Championships in Osaka , she won bronze in the 5000 m. With her time of 14: 59.21 s she remained well behind Meseret Defar and Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot , but was able to distance her fourth-placed compatriot Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet by 0.05 s.

As in the previous year, she was seventh in the individual and second in the team classification at the 2008 Cross Country World Championships in Edinburgh. At the Olympic Games in Beijing , she finished eleventh over 5000 m.

After a baby break, she returned to competition at the end of 2010 and came second in the Corrida de Houilles. In 2011 she contributed fifth to the victory of the Kenyan team at the Cross Country World Championships in Punta Umbría . After a fourth place over 10,000 m at the World Championships in Daegu , she won the Grand Prix of Prague and the Dam tot Damloop .

Priscah Jepleting Cherono is 1.58 m tall and has a competition weight of 47 kg. She has been married to Charles Chemase Cherono since December 2006 .

Personal best

• 3000 m : 8: 29.06 min, September 23, 2007, Stuttgart
• 5000 m: 14: 35.30 min, June 2, 2006, Oslo
• 10,000 m: 30: 56.43 min, August 27, 2011, Daegu
• 10K road run : 32:04 min, December 26, 2010, Houilles
• Half marathon : 1:08:35 h, September 1, 2012, Lille
• Marathon : 2:27:41 h, October 23, 2016, Venice

Web links

Commons : Priscah Jepleting Cherono  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Priscah Jepleting Cherono in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Priscah Jepleting Cherono in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ^ IAAF: World Cross Country Championships Edinburgh 2008 - Biographical Summaries. S. 9 ( PDF, 798 kB ( Memento of the original on 9 July 2010 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested Please review the original and archive link under. Instructions and then remove this notice. )