Susan Chepkemei

Susan Chepkemei
at the 2005 London Marathon
Full name	Susan Chepkemei
nation	Kenya
birthday	25th June 1975 (age 45)
place of birth	Komol ,  Kenya
size	164 cm
Weight	48 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
status	unknown
Medal table
Cross Country World Championship 2 × 2 × 3 × Half marathon world championship 0 × 3 × 1 ×
World Cross Country Championships bronze Aix-les-Bains 1990 Juniors singles gold Aix-les-Bains 1990 Juniors team bronze Boston 1992 Juniors team silver Belfast 1999 team bronze Vilamoura 2000 singles silver Vilamoura 2000 team gold Ostend 2001 team  Half marathon world championships silver Veracruz 2000 singles silver Bristol 2001 singles silver Brussels 2002 singles bronze Edmonton 2005 singles
last change: September 16, 2018

Susan Chepkemei (born June 25, 1975 in Komol , West Pokot District , Rift Valley ) is a former Kenyan long distance and cross-country runner who had her greatest successes in the half marathon and marathon .

Career

In 1998 she immediately came second in the Berlin Marathon . In the following year she took the same place in the Rotterdam marathon , won the Paderborn Easter run in the half marathon distance and set the still valid course record of 1:24:29 h in the 25 km from Berlin .

In 2000 she was third at the World Cross Country Championships in Vilamoura and second at the World Half Marathon Championships in Veracruz (the same place she took in this competition in the two following years).

In 2001 she won the Rotterdam Marathon and came second in the New York City Marathon . In 2002 she was African champion in the 10,000-meter run and second in the Commonwealth Games over the same distance. Three times in a row, from 2001 to 2003, she won the Tilburg Ladies Run 10K .

In 2004 she fought a thrilling fight with Paula Radcliffe at the New York City Marathon and finished second, just four seconds behind. The following year she was third in the London Marathon and the World Half Marathon Championships in Edmonton and only had to admit defeat Jeļena Prokopčuka at the New York City Marathon .

In 2006, she set her personal best of 2:21:46 h as third in the London Marathon.

Doping ban 2007

In September 2007, Chepkemei tested positive for salbutamol in a doping test and was banned for one year.

Susan Chepkemei is 1.64 meters tall and weighs 48 kg and is the oldest of eight siblings.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Doping Rule Violation , IAAF February 25, 2008

Web links

Commons : Susan Chepkemei  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Susan Chepkemei in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr (French)
• Athlete portrait ( memento from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the World Marathon Majors website
• Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes ( Memento from July 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), November 1, 2007