Iness Chepkesis Chenonge

Iness Chepkesis Chenonge ( born 1 February 1982 in Saboti, Trans - Nzoia District, Rift Valley Province ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.

In 2001 she won on the half marathon course of the Adige Marathon with the current course record of 1:13:06 h For the same year she published her personal best over this distance ( 1:10:35 h). At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester she won bronze in the 5000 -meter run, and at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne was sixth over the same distance.

After a maternity leave in the following year she went to work in 2008 with a victory in the road race classic Marseille - Cassis back.

At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009 they finished sixth in the 5000m.

Iness Chepkesis Chenonge is 1,68 m tall and weighs 48 kg. She started running in 2000 in their last year of school after they had hitherto enthusiastic for volleyball and netball. She was discovered at a meeting organized by the Italian manager Gabriele Rosa skiing and joined a training camp run by Shem Kororia to. Your employer is the Kenyan army in which she completed training as a training manager in 2004. Her husband is the middle-distance runner Suleiman Kipses Simotwo, with whom she has a daughter. In early 2009, she moved her management and can now take care of Golazo Sports.

Bests

  • 3000 m: 8:39,29 min 10 September, 2006, Stuttgart
  • 5000 m: 14:41,62 min 3 July 2009, Oslo
  • 15 - km road race: 48:13 min, 1st May 2009, Le Puy -en -Velay
  • Half Marathon: 1:10:35 h, December 1, 2001 Aveiro
Long-distance running Athletics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games 5000 metres Athletics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games 2009 World Championships in Athletics 3000 metres Le Puy-en-Velay
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