Fancy Chemutai (born March 20, 1995) is a Kenyan

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who specializes in the

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. She finished third in her debut at the

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and won the

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in Gothenburg in 1:07:58. On October 22, 2017 in

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, she finished second behind

Joyciline Jepkosgei Joyciline Jepkosgei (born 8 December 1993) is a Kenyan female long-distance runner who competes over distances from 10,000 metres to the marathon. She is the former half marathon world record holder in contests with mixed-gender fields with h ...

, another Kenyan long distance runner. In 2018, she won the

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, with the second-fastest ever time of 1:04:52, missing the world record held by

by one second. In 2019 at the B.A.A. 10K, presented by

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, Chemutai set a new women’s course record of 30:36.

References

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