Edna Kiplagat

Edna Kiplagat at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow

Edna Kiplagat Ngeringwony (* September 15, 1979 or November 15, 1979 in Uasin Gishu ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in road races.

Career

In Athletics Junior Championships, she won over 3000m silver in 1996 and bronze in 1998. In the junior race of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1996 in Stellenbosch, she was fifth and at the World Cross Country Championships 1997 in Turin Fourth. She won both times with the Kenyan team in the national rankings.

In December 2005 she launched for the first time on the 42,195 -km distance, but was to say at the Las Vegas Marathon in 2:50:20 with only ten more success they launched in the next two years on shorter routes: 2006 she won the Virginia Beach half Marathon and were each second in the Philadelphia half Marathon and the San Jose half Marathon. In 2007, she won at Bay to Breakers, defended her title in Virginia Beach and was third in Philadelphia.

In 2010 she returned to work after parental leave back into the competition scene. In the spring she won the Los Angeles Marathon. On the list because of their gap not best suitable route, it achieved a time of 2:25:38 h and secured a special bonus of U.S. $ 100,000 because of it 18:47 min later launched men in field goal arrived before the victor. The projection at the start resulted from the difference in the respective course records for men and for women. A second place in the Freihofer 's Run for Women followed the victory at the Boilermaker Road Race. At the Beach to Beacon 10K and the Falmouth Road Race, she was third, respectively. In the fall they crowned the season with a victory at the New York City Marathon in a time of 2:28:20 hours.

In 2011 she was at the New York City Half-Marathon in a personal best of 1:09:00 hours in second. At the London Marathon she finished in third place and increased her personal best significantly to 2:20:46 h In the World Athletics Championships in 2011 she won the marathon race in a time of 2:28:43 hours in front of their country women Priscah Jeptoo and Sharon Jemutai Cherop.

The following year, the 1.62 meter tall athlete qualified with a second place in the London Marathon, where she managed the distance in 2:19:50 hours for the 2012 Olympics, finishing in the local Olympic marathon competition on 20th Place. Previously, she already won the New York Mini 10K. At the World Athletics Championships 2013 in Moscow, she succeeded as the first woman to defend the world title in the marathon.

Edna Kiplagat Ngeringwony is coached by her husband Gilbert Cheruiyot Koech, even a successful long-distance runner and is owned by the club Kimbia Athletics on. By 2008, both were part of the KIMbia Group by Dieter Hogen. She is the mother of two children, Carlos and Wendy.

Personal Best

  • 3000 m: 8:53,06 min, August 22, 1996, Sydney
  • 5000 m: 15:57,3 min, 1 July 2006 Nairobi
  • 10,000 m: 33:27,0 min 16 June, 2007, Nairobi
  • 10 - km road race: 31:34 min, August 7, 2010, Cape Elizabeth
  • 15 - km road race: 47:57 min, July 11 2010 Utica
  • Half Marathon: 1:09:00 h, March 20, 2011 New York City
  • Marathon: 2:19:50 h, April 17, 2011, London
Long-distance running Medal 2013 World Championships in Athletics 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics 1996 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 3000 metres Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon Los-Angeles-Marathon New-York-City-Marathon New York City Half Marathon London-Marathon Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics 5000 metres Cape Elizabeth, Maine Utica (New York) Rosa Mota Wanda Panfil Hiromi Suzuki (athlete) Catherine Ndereba Bai Xue
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