Sally Kipyego

Sally Kipyego
Sally Jepkosgei Kipyego (3rd from right) at the 2012 Olympic Games
Full name	Sally Jepkosgei Kipyego
nation	United States Kenya
birthday	December 19, 1985
place of birth	Barsombe, Elgeyo-Marakwet County
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	4: 06.23 min ( 1500 m ) 4: 29.64 min ( 1 mile ) 5: 35.20 min ( 2000 m ) 8: 51.07 min ( 3000 m ) 14: 30.42 min ( 5000 m ) 30: 26.37 min ( 10,000 m )
Trainer	Mark Rowland
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver London 2012 10,000 m World championships silver Daegu 2011 10,000 m
last change: August 18, 2012

Sally Jepkosgei Kipyego (born December 19, 1985 in Barsombe, Elgeyo-Marakwet County ) is an American - Kenyan long-distance runner . Kipyego celebrated her greatest successes in the Kenyan jersey, but has also been an American citizen since 2017 and has been eligible for the United States since 2019.

Career

At the 2001 Cross Country World Championships in Ostend, she was eighth in the junior women's race and won silver with the Kenyan team. After that she was sidelined for two years because of a stress fracture in her left leg.

An experience in her childhood, when a close friend died after a bicycle accident due to a lack of medical care, was the decisive factor in pursuing training in the health sector. From 2005 to 2006 she attended South Plains College, then Texas Tech University , where she was trained as a nurse .

During her time at Texas Tech, she was NCAA champion nine times : in cross country in 2006, 2007 and 2008, over 5000 meters in 2007, 2008 and 2009 indoors and in 2008 outdoors, over 3000 meters in 2007 indoors and over 10,000 meters in 2007 outdoors. Only Suzy Favor Hamilton had previously managed to win nine NCAA titles.

After graduating, she joined the Oregon Track Club Elite .

In 2011 she qualified second at the Kenyan Championships over 10,000 meters for the World Championships in Daegu . There she won the silver medal and completed a purely Kenyan podium behind Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot and in front of Linet Chepkwemoi Masai .

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , she won the silver medal over 10,000 meters.

At the beginning of 2017, Kipyego received US citizenship, and since 2019 she has also been eligible to compete internationally for the United States.

Personal

Sally Kipyego is 1.63 m tall and weighs 46 kg. She is trained by Mark Rowland . Her father died when she was four years old. Of her six siblings, two are also professional athletes: the obstacle runner Michael Kipkorir Kipyego and the marathon runner Christopher Kipyego Chipsiya . In 2008 she married fellow runner Kevin Chelimo .

Personal bests

• 1500 m : 4: 06.23 min, April 22, 2011, Eugene
  • Hall: 4: 15.5 min, January 29, 2010, New York City
• 1 mile : 4: 29.64 min, June 11, 2009, Toronto
  • Hall: 4: 27.19 min, February 28, 2009, College Station
• 2000 m : 5: 35.20 min, June 7, 2009, Eugene
• 3000 m: 8: 51.07 min, March 19, 2011, Eugene
  • Hall: 8: 48.77 min, February 7, 2009, Boston
• 5000 m: 14: 30.42 min, September 8, 2011, Zurich
  • Hall: 14: 52.67 min, February 6, 2010, Boston
• 10,000 m: 30: 26.37 min, August 3, 2012, London

Web links

• Sally Kipyego in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Portrait ( memento from November 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at IAAF - Focus on Athletes, July 21, 2012
• Athlete portrait on the Oregon Track Club Elite website

Footnotes

1. ↑ Tim Griffin: Inspired by early tragedy, Kipyego is running for a cause . In: ESPN . June 10, 2008.
2. ↑ Texas Tech Red Raiders Official Athletic Site: Player Bio: Sally Kipyego ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Chris Lear: A Red Raider Guns for History . In: Running Times Magazine. April 2009.
4. ↑ Doug Binder: Sally Kipyego: Turning the Tables . In: Running Times Magazine. 2011.
5. ↑ Kenya's long distance star Sally Kipyego now a US citizen. In: nation.co.ke. January 26, 2017, accessed September 29, 2019 . 
6. ^ Sally Kipyego - Athlete Profile. In: iaaf.org. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .