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Visiline Jepkesho
Jepkesho at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born30 December 1989 (1989-12-30) (age 34)[1]
Height160 cm (5 ft 3 in)[2]
Weight43 kg (95 lb)
Sport
Country Kenya
SportAthletics
EventLong-distance running
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)10,000 m – 33:01.30 (2015)
Marathon – 2:24:44 (2015)
Updated on 2 September 2015

Visiline Jepkesho (born 30 December 1989) is a female Kenyan long-distance runner. She competed in the marathon at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics and 2016 Summer Olympics.[3]

She began her professional road running career in 2013 and won the Darıca Half Marathon. A marathon debut followed at the 2014 Milan Marathon, which she won in a time of 2:28:40 hours. She had two more high-profile wins that year, topping the podium at the Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon and the Lisbon Marathon, setting personal bests of 70:53 minutes and 2:26:47 hours along the way.[4]

She entered the top level 2015 Paris Marathon and made the top three with a run of 2:24:44 hours. This earned her her first international selection. At the start of 2016 she dropped out of her first marathon (failing to finish the distance at the Nagoya Women's Marathon), but then rebounded with a win at the Paris Marathon.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Visiline Jepkesho. iaaf.org
  2. ^ Visiline Jepkesho Archived 6 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
  3. ^ "Women's marathon heats results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  4. ^ a b Visiline Chepkesho. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2016-04-03.