Vivian Cheruiyot

Cheruiyot at the World Championships 2011 in Daegu

Vivian Cheruiyot Jepkemoi ( born September 11, 1983 in Keiyo ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.

Career

In the junior level, she won numerous successes. When running the Junior World Cross Country Championships she won gold in 2000 and remained from 1998 to 2002 always in the top five. In 1999, she won bronze at the 3000 - meter race of the Junior World Championships. In the 5000 - meter race of the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, she took the 14th place. In 2001, she was the same distance Junior Champion and 2002 Africa third in the Junior World Championships. In 2004 she was on the short distance at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Eighth.

In 2005, she withdrew from the competition scene to complete their education. 2006 and 2007, she was eighth at the World Cross Country Championships. On 15 June 2007 it remained the world record run by Defar with 14:22,51 min also under the old 5000 -meter record, and is now the second fastest woman of all time over this distance. At the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka, she won the silver medal in the 5000 meters, also beaten only by Defar.

In 2008, she finished fifth in the 5000m at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Your biggest success so far in the road race, it achieved in early 2009 at the World 's Best 10K, where she finished in 31:12 minutes, the winning streak of Lornah Kiplagat. At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009, she won the title on August 22, about 5000 meters in 14:57,97 min. As in 2007, she won the season ending the San Silvestre Vallecana.

At the start of the 2010 season, she repeated her victory at the World 's Best 10K. At the World Indoor Championships in Doha, she won silver over 3000 meters at the Athletics - Africa Championships in Nairobi and the Commonwealth Games in Nairobi each gold over 5000 meters, and end of the season they won the BOclassic. Cheruiyot won in 2011 at the World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria and led the Kenyan team to win the Nations Cup. At the World Athletics Championships 2011 in Daegu, she won both the 5000 and over the 10,000 meters. So she was the only participant who won gold in each twin disciplines.

Her greatest success in the Olympics succeeded Cheruiyot 2012 in London, when she won bronze on the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters final ran to silver.

Personal best

Awards

  • 2012: Laureus World Sports Awards / World Sportswoman of the Year
Long-distance running 5000 metres Summer Olympic Games Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2007 World Championships in Athletics 2009 World Championships in Athletics 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships 2010 African Championships in Athletics 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics 1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 1999 All-Africa Games Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games 3000 metres Eugene (Oregon) Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year Gabriela Szabo Tirunesh Dibaba Fernanda Ribeiro Sally Barsosio Gete Wami Derartu Tulu Marion Jones Cathy Freeman Kelly Holmes
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