Priscah Jepleting Cherono

Priscah Jepleting Cherono ( born Ngetich; born 27 June 1980 Kamuiywa ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.

At the World Cross Country Championships 1997 in Turin, she won silver in the junior girls race.

In 2003 she was at the Cross Country Championships in Avenches Eleventh on the short distance and won with the Kenyan team gold. The following year she won at the Africa Athletics Championships in Brazzaville silver in the 5000m. In 2005, she came at the Cross Country World Cup in Saint- Galmier to fourth place and won the team silver. At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, she was seventh in the 5000m. Followed in 2006 at the Cross Country Championships in Fukuoka silver medals in the individual and in the team competition; they also won the Giro Media Blenio.

In 2007, she finished seventh at the Cross Country Championships in Mombasa and brought again to the team silver. At the World Championships in Osaka, she won bronze in the 5000m. Her time of 14:59,21 s although they remained significantly behind Meseret Defar and Vivian Cheruiyot Jepkemoi, but was their fourth-placed compatriot Sylvia Kibet Jebiwott by 0.05 s distance.

As in the previous year, it was at the Cross Country World Cup 2008 in Edinburgh Seventh in the single and second in the team standings. At the Olympics in Beijing she won the 5000m eleventh place.

After a maternity leave, she returned back to the end of 2010 competition scene and was second in the Corrida de Houilles. In 2011 she was fifth at at the Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria to win the Kenyan team. After a fourth place finish in the 10,000 m at the World Championships in Daegu she won the Grand Prix of Prague and the Dam tot Damloop.

Priscah Jepleting Cherono has a competition weight of 47 kg at a height of 1.58 m. She is married to Charles Chemase Cherono since December 2006.

Personal best

  • 3000 m: 8:29,06 min 23 September, 2007, Stuttgart
  • 5000 m: 14:35,30 min, June 2, 2006 Oslo
  • 10,000 m: 30:56,43 min 27 August, 2011, Daegu
  • 10 - km road race: 32:04 min 26 December, 2010, Houilles
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