Pamela Jelimo

Pamela Jelimo (also written Chelimo; born December 5, 1989 in Kapsabet ) is a Kenyan middle distance runner and Olympic gold medalist (2008) in the 800 -meter run. With her personal best of 1:54,01 about the 800 meters, Jelimo is the third fastest runner in history.

Jelimo began at age 13 in her home in Kapsabet with the sport of running. In 2007, she occupied at the Kenyan Championships in fifth in the 400 -meter run. At the Junior Africa Championships, she won in 54.93 s After no breakthrough was expected at the distance of their times, they planned for the Olympic season a switch to the 800 - meter track and put their training accordingly.

Your first start on the new distance Jelimo completed in April 2008, when she qualified in 2:01,02 min for the Africa Championships. On May 4, 2008, she then won in 1:58,70 min in Addis Ababa, the African champions title Maria de Lurdes Mutola before. On May 25, she put in Hengelo the junior world record 1:55,76 min. When the Golden League opener in Berlin, she improved on 1 June at the ISTAF Mutolas Africa record from 1994 to 1:54,99 min, on July 18, they undercut in Saint- Denis this record with 1:54,97 min. After four Golden League meetings of the season 2008 was out Pamela Jelimo only high jumper Blanka Vlasic, the rival for the jackpot of one million U.S. dollars. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Jelimo won the gold medal with a new junior world record of 1:54,87 min before their teammate Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei. On 29 August 2008 Jelimo improved in Zurich, at the Golden League meeting World Class Zurich once again their junior and Africa record. She ran a time of 1:54,01 min there and thus beat their record by 86 hundredths of a second. On September 6, 2008 in Brussels Jelimo won the Memorial Van Damme also the sixth and final Golden League meeting of the season and secured himself the sole jackpot over a million dollars, as the high jumper until this final par -lying Blanka Vlasic could not win in their discipline.

The 1.70 meter tall Jelimo, for which the term Kapsabet express is used as a nickname in the press, also was in the squad of the Kenyan team for the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing in London on the 800 - meter track in the Olympic final of the 4. rank.

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