Fancy Chemutai (born March 20, 1995) is a Kenyan
long distance runner
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who specializes in the
half marathon
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.
She finished third in her debut at the
Prague Half Marathon
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and won the
Göteborgsvarvet
Göteborgsvarvet () is an annual half marathon running competition in Gothenburg, Sweden (often called the Gothenburg Half Marathon in English).
It is the largest annual running competition in the world in terms of entries, with its 62,000 ent ...
in Gothenburg in 1:07:58. On October 22, 2017 in
Valencia
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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
RAK Half Marathon
Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon is an annual half marathon held in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.
History
The first event, in 2007, saw Samuel Wanjiru breaking the world record, but Wanjiru himself set a new world record only a month later in ...
, with the second-fastest ever time of 1:04:52, missing the world record held by
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 ...
by one second. In 2019 at the B.A.A. 10K, presented by
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is the second largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the largest hospital in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two f ...
, Chemutai set a new women’s course record of 30:36.
References
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Living people
1995 births
Kenyan female long-distance runners
Kenyan female marathon runners