Jemima Sumgong
Sumgong at the 2016 Olympics
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| Full name | Jemima Jelagat Sumgong | |||||||||
| Nationality | Kenyan | |||||||||
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21 December 1984 Nandi District, Kenya |
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| Height | 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||
| Weight | 45 kg (99 lb) | |||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Noah Talam | |||||||||
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| Sport | Track & field | |||||||||
| Event(s) | Marathon | |||||||||
| Coached by | Claudio Beradelli | |||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 2:20:41 | |||||||||
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Medal record
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| Updated on 15 August 2016. | ||||||||||
Jemima Jelagat Sumgong (born 21 December 1984) is a Kenyan long-distance runner and Olympic champion who competes in marathon races.
She has won the London, Rotterdam and Las Vegas Marathons, and has finished runner-up at the Boston, Chicago and New York City Marathons. She has a personal best of 2:20:48 hours for the distance. In the 2016 Olympic Games, she won the marathon in warm conditions with a time of 2:24:04 hours. With the introduction of the women's marathon in 1984, she became the first female winner from Kenya. She was 31 years old at the time.
Hailing from the Nandi District in Kenya, Sumgong began to compete abroad in 2004. In one of her first elite races, she came second at the Gothenburg Half Marathon. She started to establish herself as a runner on the American road circuit in 2005. She won the Ogden Newspapers Classic Half Marathon and Maggie Valley Moonlight Run that year. Further victories followed in 2006, as she won the Get In Gear 10K in Minneapolis, the Cleveland 10K and the Wharf to Wharf 6-Miler. She ran a 15K personal best of 49:39 minutes at the Utica Boilermaker in July and, that November, she ran the fastest ever half marathon in Trinidad and Tobago, winning a race in Saint Augustine in 1:12:08 hours.
Sumgong's first marathon came at the Las Vegas Marathon in 2006 and she won on her first attempt, taking the women's title in a time of 2:35:22 hours. She came third at the Azalea Trail Run the following year. She made her European debut at the 2007 Frankfurt Marathon and she came fourth in an improved time of 2:29:41 hours. Her next outing over the distance came at the San Diego Marathon and she was runner-up in 2:30:18 hours behind Yulia Gromova. She signed up to work for the Kenyan Armed Forces in 2009. Taking a break from running, she married Noah Talam (another Kenyan marathon runner) and the couple later had a daughter in 2011. Having missed the 2009 season, she returned in 2010 and was runner-up at the San Blas Half Marathon, fifth at the Berlin Half Marathon and fifth at the San Diego Marathon.
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