Peninah Jepchumba (born 14 January 1985 in
Marakwet
:''Marakwet is also a district in Kenya, see Marakwet District''
The Marakwet are one of the groups forming the ethnolinguistic Kalenjin community of Kenya, they speak the Markweta language. The Marakwet live in five territorial sections namely Al ...
) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.
She finished seventh in
3000 metres
The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track.
It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...
at the
2002 World Junior Championships and won the silver medal in the junior race at the
2003 World Cross Country Championships. At the
2004 World Cross Country Championships she finished seventh in the short race, while the Kenyan team, of which Jepchumba was a part, won the silver medal in the team competition.
Personal bests
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1500 metres
The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...
- 4:15.35 min (2003)
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3000 metres
The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track.
It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...
- 9:10.27 min (2003)
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5000 metres
The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a stan ...
- 15:46.0 min (2001)
External links
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1985 births
Living people
Kenyan female long-distance runners
Kenyan female cross country runners
21st-century Kenyan women
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