Viola Jelagat Kibiwot (born 22 December 1983 in
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) is a runner from
Kenya
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who specialises in the
1500 metres
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.
Kibiwot won her first international medal as a junior runner at the
2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
The 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 18/19, 2000. The races were held at the Sporting Complex in Vilamoura, Portugal. Reports of the event were given in ''The New York Times'',
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, where she took the
bronze medal
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for Kenya. Consecutive world junior cross country titles followed at the
2001
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and
2002
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editions of the event, and she also claimed the
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
over 1500 m at the
2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics
The 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Kingston, Jamaica from July 16 to July 21, 2002.
Men's Results
Women's Results
Medal table
Participation
According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, ...
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After becoming a senior runner, she struggled to match her junior success. She was outside of the top twenty in the senior short race at the
2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
The 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 29/30, 2003. The races were held at the L'Institut Équestre National in Avenches near Lausanne, Switzerland. Reports of the event were given in ''The New York Times'',
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, and again at the 2005 race. She was seventh on the track at the
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...
, but appeared to make her breakthrough over 1500 m at the
2007 World Championships in Athletics
The 11th World Championships in Athletics, () under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federat ...
with a fifth-place finish in a personal best time of 4:02.10 minutes in the final. She narrowly missed out on a medal at the
2007 IAAF World Athletics Final
The 5th IAAF World Athletics Final was held at the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion in Stuttgart, Germany on September 22 and September 23, 2007.
Results
Men
Women
See also
*2007 in athletics (track and field)
References
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, coming fourth.
She competed at the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
, but failed to build upon her progress on the global stage and did not advance beyond heats. At the
2009 World Championships she did not get past semi-finals stage. Kibiwoot ran on the
2010 IAAF Diamond League
The 2010 Diamond League season was the first season of the Diamond League, an annual series of fourteen one-day track and field meetings. The series began on 14 May in Doha, Qatar and ended on 27 August in Brussels, Belgium.
Superseding the Europe ...
circuit, but never made the top three in the event. She came seventh in the 1500 m at the
2010 Commonwealth Games
The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ...
in Delhi. Kibiwot won her first senior continental medal at the
2011 African Cross Country Championships
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, taking the
silver medal
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behind
Mercy Cherono
Mercy Cherono Koech (born 7 May 1991) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner. She was the silver medalist in the 5000 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.
She is a two-time world junior champion in the 3000 metres (2008, ...
and helping Kenya to the team title.
She was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 1500 m at the
2011 World Championships in Athletics
The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011.
The United States topped the medal standings in th ...
. She changed her focus to longer distances as a result and performed better on the world stage, taking sixth at the
2012 Olympic 5000 m final and fourth at the
2013 World Championships 5000 m final. At the
2013 World Cross Country Championships
The 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 24, 2013. The races were held at the Myślęcinek Park in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Kenya topped the medal standings in the competition with 5 gold, and Ethiopia had the most overall ...
she helped Kenya to the team title with her seventh-place finish. An outing over four miles on the roads in October 2013 saw her run the world best for the distance, as she completed the
4 mijl van Groningen
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In mathematics
Four is the smallest c ...
race in 19:20 minutes.
[Mulkeen, Jon (2013-10-13)]
Kibiwot sets 4 Mile World best in Groningen as Alamirew beats Gebrselassie
IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-10-15.
Achievements
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 ...
- 4:02.10 min (2007)
*
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 ...
- 8:40.14 min (2003)
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Two miles
The 2 mile (10,560 feet or 3,218.688 metres) is a historic running distance. Like the mile run, it is still contested at some invitational meets due its historical chronology in the United States and United Kingdom. It has been larg ...
- 9:12.59 (2014)
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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 ...
- 14:33.48 min (2013)
References
External links
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Global Sports Communication profile
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1983 births
Living people
People from Elgeyo-Marakwet County
Kenyan female middle-distance runners
Kenyan female long-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Kenya
Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Kenya
Kenyan female cross country runners
Commonwealth Games competitors for Kenya