Eunice Jepkoech Sum

Eunice Sum

Sum at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born	10 April 1988 (1988-04-10) (age 28) Kesses, Uasin Gishu County, Kenya
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	800–3000 m
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	800 m – 1:56.99 (2015) 1500 – 4:01.54 (2014) 3000 m – 8:53.12 (2012)
Medal record Representing  Kenya World Championships 2013 Moscow 800 m 2015 Beijing 800 m Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 800 m African Championships 2014 Marrakech 800 m 2012 Porto Novo 800 m

Eunice Jepkoech Sum (born 10 April 1988) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner. She is the current African and Commonwealth Games champion in the 800 metres. She was also world champion in the same discipline.

Sum was born in the village of Kesses in Uasin Gishu County in the former Rift Valley Province and competed in the heptathlon and handball at school. She gave birth to a daughter Diana Jeruto in 2008 and only began a full-time athletics career in 2009 after being spotted competing in a heptathlon event by former 800 metres world champion Janeth Jepkosgei. At Jepkosgei's invitation, Sum moved to Eldoret to train with Jepkosgei's group.

She made her international championship début in the 800 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics in Nairobi, but failed to make the final. In 2011, Sum set a personal best time of 1:59.66 in finishing second over 800 m at the Kenyan championships. This performance qualified Sum for the 800 m at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea, where she reached the semi finals.

Sum won a silver medal – her first medal in international competition – in the 800 m at the 2012 African Championships in Athletics in Porto-Novo, Benin. She ran a personal best of 1:59.13 in the final, finishing two hundredths of a second behind Burundi's Francine Niyonsaba. Sum then competed in the 1500 m at the Olympics, but finished a disappointing 10th in her heat and failed to qualify for the semi finals.