Lornah Kiplagat

Lornah Kiplagat

Kiplagat competing at the FBK Games 2007.
Personal information
Born	(1974-05-01) 1 May 1974 (age 42) Kabiemit, Kenya
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	49 kg (108 lb)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Netherlands World Cross Country Championships 2007 Mombasa Long race 2006 Fukuoka Long race World Half Marathon Championships 2008 Rio de Janeiro Individual 2005 Edmonton Individual World Road Running Championships 2006 Debrecen Individual 2007 Udine Individual European Cross Country Championships 2005 Tilburg Individual
Updated on 21 July 2008.

Lornah Kiplagat (born 1 May 1974) is a Dutch long-distance runner. She was born in Kabiemit, Rift Valley Province, Kenya and came to the Netherlands in 1999. She gained Dutch citizenship in 2003 and has competed for the Netherlands since. She runs not only road events but also in cross country and track and field.

She ran at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, was the 2007 gold medallist at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, and took three straight World Road Running Championship titles from 2006 to 2008. In the marathon, she holds a best time of 2:22:22 hours and has won major races in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Osaka. She currently holds the world road record over 5 kilometres and 10 miles. Her best times over 20 km and the half marathon distance were world records from 2007 to 2011 and remain the second fastest times ever.

Part of a highly successful family of runners, her relatives include Sylvia Kibet, Hilda Kibet and Susan Sirma.

Kiplagat was already running decent results when she still ran for Kenya. She was the first woman to win both the Falmouth Road Race and the Peachtree Road Race. As of 2006 she is still the only woman to achieve this, but she achieved it three times in a row (2000, 2001 and 2002) and a fourth time in 2005 as well. Among her other achievements are the Amsterdam Marathon, the Rotterdam Marathon, the Osaka Ladies Marathon and the Los Angeles Marathon