Vivian Cheruiyot

Vivian Cheruiyot
Cheruiyot at the World Championships 2011 in Daegu
Full name	Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot
nation	Kenya
birthday	11th September 1983 (age 36)
place of birth	Keiyo
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	14: 20.87 min ( 5000 m ) 29: 32.53 min ( 10,000 m ) 2:18:31 h (marathon)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 2 × 1 × World championships 4 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 0 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championship 0 × 0 × 1 × Youth World Cup 0 × 0 × 1 × Cross Country World Championship 3 × 1 × 1 × Pan-African Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver London 2012 5000 m bronze London 2012 10,000 m gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 5000 m silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 10,000 m  World championships silver Osaka 2007 5000 m gold Berlin 2009 5000 m gold Daegu 2011 5000 m gold Daegu 2011 10,000 m gold Beijing 2015 10,000 m  Indoor world championships silver Doha 2010 3000 m  African Championships gold Nairobi 2010 5000 m  Junior World Championships bronze Kingston 2002 5000 m  Youth World Championships bronze Bydgoszcz 1999 3000 m  World Cross Country Championships silver Belfast 1999 Juniors gold Vilamoura 2000 Juniors bronze Dublin 2002 Juniors gold Punta Umbría 2011 singles gold Punta Umbría 2011 team  Africa Games bronze Johannesburg 1999 5000 m  Commonwealth Games gold Delhi 2010 5000 m
last change: April 22, 2018

Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot (born September 11, 1983 in Keiyo ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner and Olympic champion in the 5000-meter run .

Career

She achieved numerous successes in the junior sector. She won gold in the junior run of the Cross Country World Championships in 2000 and was always in the top five from 1998 to 2002. In 1999 she won bronze in the 3000 meter run of the Junior World Championships. In the 5000-meter run of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , she finished 14th. In 2001 she was Junior African Champion over the same distance and in 2002 third in the Junior World Championships. In 2004 she was eighth on the short distance at the Cross Country World Championships.

In 2005, she withdrew from the competition to complete her school education. In 2006 and 2007 she was eighth at the World Cross Country Championships. On June 15, 2007, she stayed under the old 5000 meter record in the Meseret Defar world record run with 14: 22.51 minutes and is now the second fastest woman of all time over this distance. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , she won the silver medal over 5000 meters, again only beaten by Defar.

In 2008 she was fifth at the Beijing Olympic Games in the 5000 meters. She achieved her greatest success in road running at the beginning of 2009 at the World's Best 10K , where she finished Lornah Kiplagat's winning streak in 31:12 minutes . At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , she won the 5000 meter title on August 22nd in 14: 57.97 minutes. As in 2007, she won the San Silvestre Vallecana at the end of the season .

At the beginning of the 2010 season, she repeated her victory in the World's Best 10K. At the World Indoor Championships in Doha she won silver over 3000 meters, at the African Championships in Nairobi and the Commonwealth Games in Nairobi both gold over 5000 meters, and at the end of the season she won the BOclassic . In 2011 Cheruiyot won the Cross Country World Championships in Punta Umbria and led the Kenyan team to win the Nations Cup. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , she won both the 5000 and the 10,000 meters. This made her the only participant to win gold in two individual disciplines.

Her greatest success up to then at the Olympic Games was achieved by Cheruiyot in 2012 in London when she won bronze in the 10,000 meters and ran for silver in the 5000 meter final.

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , Cheruiyot won the gold medal over 10,000 meters.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she ran to the silver medal in the 10,000 meter run in 29: 32.53 minutes. With her time she moved up to third place in the all-time world best list, but still remained far behind the winner Almaz Ayana from Ethiopia, who with 29: 17.45 mins the old world record of the Chinese Wang Junxia from 1993 by more than 14 seconds undercut. A week later, Cheruiyot succeeded in taking revenge in the 5000 meter final when she won her first Olympic gold medal in 14: 26.17 minutes and relegated her compatriot Hellen Obiri and Ayana, who was clearly favored in the run-up, to the places. In September she won the half marathon at the Great North Run in 1:07:44 hours.

As of the 2017 season, Cheruiyot focused on road running. In the Lisbon half marathon she came second, just barely beaten by the Ethiopian Mare Dibaba . A month later she made her debut at the London Marathon with fourth place in 2:23:50 h over the marathon distance. After finishing second at the Great North Run in September, she won the Frankfurt Marathon in 2:23:35 hours at the end of October .

At the London Marathon 2018, Cheruiyot ran to victory in a new personal best of 2:18:31 h.

In 2019, the 36-year-old athlete canceled her planned start at the Berlin Marathon . In December, she finished fourth in the Valencia Marathon .

Personal best

• 1500 m : 4: 06.6 min, May 18, 2012, Nairobi
• 2000 m : 5: 31.52 min, June 7th 2009, Eugene
• 3000 m : 8: 28.66 min, September 23, 2007, Stuttgart
  • Hall: 8: 30.53 min, February 21, 2009, Birmingham
• 5000 m : 14: 20.87 min, July 29, 2011, Stockholm
• 10,000 m : 29: 32.53 min, August 12, 2016, Rio de Janeiro
• 10 km road run : 30:47 min, February 26, 2012, San Juan
• Half marathon : 1:06:34 h, March 17, 2019, Lisbon
• Marathon : 2:18:31 h, April 29, 2018, London

Awards

• 2012: Laureus World Sports Awards / World Sportswoman of the Year

Web links

Commons : Vivian Cheruiyot  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Vivian Cheruiyot in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Vivian Cheruiyot in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Kitwara and Cheruiyot, new champions and men's record at World's Best 10K ( Memento of March 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). March 1, 2009
2. ^ IAAF: Fulfilling favorite roles, Masai and Cheruiyot prevail in Madrid ( Memento of January 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). January 1, 2010
3. ^ IAAF: Masai and Cheruiyot take crowns in San Juan ( Memento of March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). March 1, 2010
4. ^ IAAF: Merga and Cheruiyot take dramatic victories in Bolzano ( Memento of January 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). January 1, 2011
5. ↑ HDsports.at: Ethiopians get third gold , August 10, 2012
6. ↑ Parker Morse: Report: women's 10,000 m - Rio 2016 Olympic Games ( English ) IAAF. August 12, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
7. ↑ Phil Minshull: Report: women's 5000 m - Rio 2016 Olympic Games ( English ) IAAF. August 19, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
8. ↑ Women-world-top-at-the-marathon-almost-completely.html Berlin-women-world-class at the marathon almost completely (26 September 2019)