Linet Masai

Linet Masai Chepkwemoi ( born December 5, 1989 in Kapsokwony, Mount Elgon District, Western Province ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.

Encouraged by the success of her brother Moses Ndiema Masai, who took two gold medals at the African Junior Championships in 2005, she began the same year with a serious running training.

At her first international assignment, the junior race of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2007 in Mombasa, she immediately won gold. At the IAAF World Athletics Final of the same year, she finished fourth in both 5000 and 10,000 meters.

In the Cross Country World Cup 2008 in Edinburgh, she started in the adult race and won the bronze medal ( silver in the team competition ). However, they missed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the 10,000 - meter race despite a personal best of 30:26,50 min in fourth medal scarce. The following year she was able to secure at the Cross Country World Cup 2009 in Amman the silver medal. Also, where she won with Kenya in the team standings, who had previously won seven consecutive years the Ethiopians.

Your biggest success so far achieved Masai by winning the gold medal in the 10,000 m at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009. On the last 100 meters, she pushed up from fourth to first place and beat with a time of 30:51,24 min, the Ethiopian Meselech Melkamu who already victorious believed himself to a tenth of a second. A month later she won with her brother at the Dam tot Damloop over ten miles.

In 2010 she won again the silver medal at the Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz and won the New York Mini 10K. The following year, followed by a silver medal at the Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, a title defense at the New York Mini 10K and a bronze medal at the World Championships in Daegu 10,000 m.

In 2012 she finished third at the World 's Best 10K and won the Great Manchester Run.

Bests

  • 2000 m: 5:33,43 min, June 7, 2009 Eugene
  • 3000 m: 8:38,97 min, September 9, 2007 Rieti
  • 5000 m: 14:31,14 min 23 May, 2010, Shanghai
  • 10,000 m: 30:26,50 min 15 August, 2008, Beijing
  • 10 - km road race: 30:48 min 12 June, 2010, New York City
Long-distance running 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 5000 metres 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2009 World Championships in Athletics 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Eugene (Oregon) 3000 metres Fernanda Ribeiro Sally Barsosio Gete Wami Derartu Tulu Tirunesh Dibaba
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