Rose Chelimo (born 12 July 1989) is a Kenyan-born Bahraini long-distance runner who competes in

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events up to the marathon distance. She is the 2017 IAAF world champion. She represented Bahrain at the 2016 Summer Olympics, placing eighth in the women's marathon. Chelimo started competing in professional European road races in 2010. In France that year she was runner-up at the Paris-Versailles and won the 20K de Paris and

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. The following year she won the Lac d'Annecy Half Marathon. A career breakthrough of 69:45 minutes for the half marathon came in a runner-up finish in

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. She also won the Auray-Vannes Half Marathon and was top three at the Paris 20K and

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.Rose Chelimo
Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 14 August 2016. In 2012, she began competing a higher profile races, but did not place as highly, though she was second at the

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. She missed the 2013 season but returned in mid-2014 with a string of victories, including the Alsterlauf, Bredase Singelloop (in a best of 68:40 minutes) and the Paris 20K. She continued this into 2015 by winning the Adana Half Marathon, San Blas Half Marathon and the Lisbon Half Marathon, winning the latter in a new best of 68:22 minutes. After a win at the České Budějovice Half Marathon, she gained Bahraini citizenship and began competing for that country. Chelimo started 2016 with two personal bests. She ran 68:08 minutes for eighth at the

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, then won her debut race at the

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, crossing the line in 2:24:14 hours.Loyanae gets course record at the Seoul International Marathon
IAAF (20 March 2016). Retrieved on 2016-08-14. She performed well on her Olympic debut at the 2016 Rio Games with an eighth-place finish in 2:27:36 hours, while her teammate

Eunice Kirwa Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa (born 20 May 1984) is a Kenyan-born Bahraini long-distance runner who specialises in marathon running. Having switched countries in 2013, she is the Bahraini record holder with 2:21:17 hours for the distance, set in 2017 ...

took the silver.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chelimo, Rose Living people 1989 births Kenyan female long-distance runners Kenyan female marathon runners Bahraini female long-distance runners Bahraini female marathon runners Naturalized citizens of Bahrain Olympic athletes for Bahrain Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Bahrain World Athletics Championships medalists Asian Games gold medalists for Bahrain Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games World Athletics Championships winners Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)