Grace Momanyi
Grace Kwamboka Momanyi ( born February 13, 1981 in Masimba, Kisii District, Nyanza Province) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.
During her school years she had success in road races overseas. After a maternity leave, she returned in 2004 to the competition scene back, and in 2005 she broke the MDS Nordion 10K in Ottawa with 31:24,4 min the 16 -year-old course record.
Malaria seizures, anemia and injuries they threw back in the subsequent period, and in 2008 they made a comeback when it was Kenyan Cross Country Champion. At the World Cross Country Championships, she was then ten and at the Track Championships Africa in Addis Ababa third over 5000 m. With Elvan Abeylegesse she shared the victory at the premiere of World 10K Bangalore, and at the Kenyan elimination fights for the Beijing Olympics, she qualified as second of the 10,000 -meter run. Although she carried the Kenyan flag at the Olympic opening ceremony, it was shortly thereafter replaced by Peninah Jerop Arusei in the squad.
In 2009 she won the Würzburg Residenz run over 10 km. At the World Championships in Berlin, she launched the 10,000 m. In the last third, they intensified with her compatriot Linet Masai Chepkwemoi the pace and thus contributed to the fact that the Masai could against the three Äthioperinnen who had gone along the pace, prevail in the end. Momanyi himself was a personal best of 30:52,25 min fourth. At the Dam tot Damloop she was five.
In 2010 she defended her title in Wurzburg, won gold in the 10,000 m at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi and won the Great South Run.
Grace Kwamboka Momanyi is 1,70 m tall and weighs 47 kg. She is coached by her husband Timothy Momanyi.