Sharon Jemutai Cherop

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Sharon Jemutai Cherop at the 2012 Boston Marathon

Sharon Jemutai Cherop (born March 16, 1984 ) is a Kenyan marathon runner .

The third of the 2000 5000m World Junior Athletics Championships won the 2007 News and Sentinel Half Marathon and came fourth in the Philadelphia Half Marathon , before finishing third in the Twin Cities Marathon on her 42.195km debut . In 2008 she was fourth in the Nashville Marathon and third in the Nairobi Marathon in 2009 .

In 2010 she won the Hamburg Marathon , improved her personal record by more than five minutes and ran out over a minute. Another leap in performance came at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon , where she ran the fastest time ever for a woman on Canadian soil with 2:22:43 h. The following year she was third in the Boston Marathon , won bronze at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu and was second in the Delhi Half Marathon .

In 2012 she finished seventh in the Dubai Marathon and won the Boston Marathon . In 2013 she was third in the Boston Marathon and second in the Berlin Marathon .

Her husband Matthew Kibowen Kosgei is also successful as a marathon runner.

Personal bests

Web links

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Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Kigen and Cherop take Hamburg Marathon titles ( Memento from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). April 26, 2010
  2. ^ IAAF: Mungara and Cherop take Toronto Marathon titles as Canadian All-Comers records tumble ( Memento from September 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). September 26, 2010
  3. ^ IAAF: Korir and Cherop the best as warm weather slows Boston . April 16, 2012
  4. ↑ 2001 - 2015 Boston Marathon Results. Retrieved January 4, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : Two Kenyans run away from everyone . April 26, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Cherop, Sharon Jemutai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan marathon runner
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1984