Salina Jebet Kosgei

Salina Jebet Kosgei at the 2009 Boston Marathon

Salina Jebet Kosgei (born November 16, 1976 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon .

In 2002 she won the 10,000 meter run of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester . In 2004 she surprised as the winner of the Paris Marathon in 2:24:29 h. The following year she won the Prague Marathon and came fourth in the New York City Marathon .

In 2006 she first won the Lisbon Half Marathon , then came second in the Berlin Marathon with a personal best of 2:23:22 h and finally won the Singapore Marathon with a course record of 2:31:55 h.

In 2007 she finished fourth in the London Marathon and second in the Tokyo International Women's Marathon . In 2008 she was again fourth in London and finished tenth in the marathon of the Olympic Games in Beijing .

In 2009 she won the traditional Boston Marathon in 2:32:16 h. She reached the finish line with only one second ahead of defending champion Dire Tune .

Best times

• 5000 m : 15: 01.79 min, August 2, 2003, Heusden-Zolder
• 10,000 m: 31: 27.83 min, July 30, 2002, Manchester
• Half marathon : 1:09:06 h, February 20, 2009, Ras al-Khaimah
• Marathon: 2:23:22 h, September 24, 2006, Berlin

Web links

• Salina Kosgei Jebet in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr (French)
• Athletes Portrait ( Memento of 27 April 2014 Internet Archive ) on the website of the World Marathon Majors (Engl.)