Daisy Jepkemei (born February 13, 1996) is a Kenyan born long distance running athlete. Since January 29, 2022, she represents

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. While representing Kenya at age 16, she was the steeplechase champion at the

2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics The 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born 1993 or later) which was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on 10–15 ...

(for athletes under age 20) as well as the

2013 African Youth Athletics Championships The 2013 African Youth Athletics Championships were the first edition of the biennial athletics competition for African athletes aged fifteen to seventeen. It was held in Warri, Nigeria, on 28–31 March. A total of 40 events were originally sched ...

. She was also second place in the 3000 metres at those same championships. Her personal best of 9:06.66, set in 2019 at the

Weltklasse Zürich Weltklasse Zürich ( en, World Class Zurich) is an annual, invitation-only, world-class track and field meeting at the Letzigrund in Zürich, Switzerland, generally held at the end of August or beginning of September. Previously one of the IAAF G ...

meet ranks her in the top 50 athletes of all time.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jepkemei, Daisy Living people 1996 births Kenyan female steeplechase runners Kenyan female middle-distance runners Kenyan female long-distance runners Kenyan female cross country runners Kazakhstani female middle-distance runners Kazakhstani female long-distance runners 21st-century Kenyan women