Hellen Chepngeno
Hellen Chepngeno (also: Helen Chepngeno; born August 2, 1967 in Kitopen, Bomet District, Rift Valley Province) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner.
She began with the Running in the Primary School Kitopen. After high school, she was employed by the Kenyan Prison Service, which has its own track team.
In 1991, she was at the national championships in cross-country running second behind Tegla Loroupe and thus qualified for the World Cross Country Championships. They came in 46th place and therefore no longer belonged to the Kenyan team that won the gold medal. The following year she won at the national championships. At the World Cross Country Championships, she improved to 15th place and got together with Susan Sirma ( 9 ), Hellen Kimaiyo Kipkoskei ( 11 ) and Jane Ngotho ( 12 ) the team gold.
She was not called to the squad for the World Cross Country Championships 1993. At the Track - Africa Championships in Durban, she won bronze in the 3000 -meter run.
The following year, they increased their efforts to not again to be missing at the World Cross Country Championships. Secretly, she completed during the training camp of the national team in the morning hours of additional units along with several other athletes such as William Sigei. The effort paid off, because at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Budapest she won seven seconds ahead of the favorite, Catherina McKiernan, becoming the first African world champion in this discipline.
An ankle injury she sat shortly thereafter incapacitated. A medical treatment abroad, was denied her. It was only when her manager Kim McDonald gave a Canadian doctor who treated her in Nairobi, her condition improved. Finally, she was sufficiently restored that they could deny road races in Germany with some success. Among other things, she won in 2000 the night of Borgholzhausen.
Hellen Chepngeno has bought with her prize money, a house with two acres of land and 15 cows. She is a single mother of two sons.