Joyciline Jepkosgei
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| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Kenya
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| African Championships | ||
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2016 Durban | 10,000 m |
Joyciline Jepkosgei (born 8 December 1993) is a Kenyan female long-distance runner who competes over distances from 10,000 metres to the half marathon. She is the half marathon world record holder with her personal best of 64:52 minutes. During that race she broke four world records en route, recording 30:05 at 10K, 45:37 at 15K and 61:25 at 20K.
She was a bronze medallist over 10,000 m at the African Championships in Athletics in 2016.
Jepkosgei emerged as a professional level runner at the 2015 Nairobi Half Marathon, where she finished fifth in 74:06 minutes. She knocked her best down to 69:09 minutes at the following year's First Lady's Half Marathon in the Kenyan capital, placing second to Valentine Kipketer. She improved two seconds further in winning the Karlovy Vary Half Marathon, which placed her in the top 35 runners that year.
A member of the Kenya Defence Forces, she was twice runner-up at their track championships in 2016 in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres. A third-place finish in the 10,000 m at the Kenyan Athletics Championships led to her first international selection for the 2016 African Championships in Athletics. There she took the bronze medal in a personal best of 31:28.28 minutes. Jepkosgei ended her breakthrough year with a runner-=up finish at the Prague Grand Prix and a win at the Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale.
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