Pauline Korikwiang

Personal information

Born

1 March 1988 (age 29)
Kaptabuk, Rift Valley Province, Kenya

Medal record

Women's athletics
Representing Kenya
World Cross Country Championships
	2006 Fukuoka	Junior race
World Junior Championships
	2006 Beijing	5000 m
All-Africa Games
	2011 Maputo	5000 m
	2011 Maputo	10,000 m

Pauline Chemning Korikwiang (born 1 March 1988) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in track and cross country running competitions.

She rose in the youth ranks in 2005, taking a 3000 metres silver medal at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics and took the world junior cross country title at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. After winning youth medals on the track at World and African junior level, she has represented Kenya at the senior level in both cross country and the 10,000 metres at the African Championships in Athletics. She won two bronze medals at the 2011 All-Africa Games.

Korikwiang was born in Kaptabuk and drew inspiration to become a runner from another local resident Tegla Loroupe, who broke world records in the half marathon. She began competed at the national junior level in 2003 and gained selection for the African Junior Athletics Championships that year, where she came fifth in the 5000 metres. A runner-up performance behind Veronica Nyaruai at the national junior cross country championships two years later led to her first world appearance, where she was seventh in the junior race at the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.