Lydia Cheromei

Lydia Cheromei ( born May 11, 1977 Baringo District ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.

At first she was successful as a cross and track runner. At the World Cross Country Championships 1991, she was Junior World Champion in the World Cross Country Championships in 2000, she finished fourth, and in 2001 she won the bronze medal. In 1992 and 1993 she was runner-up in each African 10,000 -meter run. Over 5000 m, it was fifth at the World Athletics Championships in 1997 and sixth at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In both the cross country and over 5000 and 10,000 meters, it was twice each Kenyan champion.

Your first big success in the road race they had in 1997 when Swiss Women's Race 5 km, as she set up with 14:58 min a track record that still exists today. In 2000, she repeated her victory just there.

After a competition break of three years, she returned in 2004 back: She won the Rotterdam Half Marathon, finished second at the World Half Marathon Championships in New Delhi and missed with their victory in Zevenheuvelenloop over 15 km of the then world record by just five seconds.

On February 24, 2005 drug test was performed at her in Eldoret, where you proved clomiphene. After a two -year ban for a breach of the Doping Rules 2008, she returned back to the competition scene. At the Rotterdam Half Marathon with 1:08:35 hours she put a new course record, and at her first race over the marathon distance, she won the Amsterdam Marathon in 2:25:57 h

2009 Cheromei second in the Rotterdam Marathon and fifth at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon. In addition, she won the Bogota Half Marathon. The following year she won the Delhi Half Marathon ninth place. In early 2011, she was h Dubai Marathon runner-up in 2:23:01 In the course of the season they improved the track records at Prague Half Marathon, at the Prague Marathon and in Marseille - Cassis and was fifth at the Delhi Half Marathon.

In 2012 she finished sixth in Dubai and second in the Prague Half Marathon.

Bests

  • 3000 m: 8:29,14 min, August 11, 2000 Zurich
  • 5000 m: 14:46,72 min, August 26, 1997 Berlin
  • 10,000 m: h 31:41,09, 27 June 1992 Belle Vue Maurel
  • 15 - km road race: 47:02 min 21 November, 2004, Nijmegen
  • Half Marathon: 1:07:26 h, March 31, 2012 Prague
  • Marathon: 2:21:30 h 27 January, 2012, Dubai
Baringo County Long-distance running Cross country running 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 5000 metres 1997 World Championships in Athletics 2004 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships Amsterdam-Marathon Rotterdam-Marathon Dubai-Marathon 3000 metres
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