Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi (born 13 January 1992) is a Kenyan

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runner. She won gold at the

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and

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, and bronze at the 2017 World Championships and

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. At the

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, she won silver in

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and bronze in

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. , her personal best time of 9:00.01 ranks her 6th on the world all-time list.

Career

Early in her career, Jepkemoi competed in a variety of events; her main event was the

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, in which she placed fifth at the 2011 Kenyan Championships.Tilastopaja profile fo
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she competed in both the 5000 metres and an event completely new to her, the

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; she placed fourth in her main event but won an unexpected gold in the steeplechase, running 10:00.50 and outkicking Ethiopia's

Hiwot Ayalew Hiwot Ayalew Yimer (Amharic: ህይወት ፡ አያሌው ; born 6 March 1990) is an Ethiopian professional long-distance runner whose speciality is the 3000 metres steeplechase. She represented Ethiopia in the event at the 2012 Summer Olympi ...

to win Kenya's first athletics gold medal at the Games. In 2012 Jepkemoi started concentrating on the steeplechase and her times improved; her best time that year was 9:23.53, which she ran at the Gugl Games in

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. She scored her first IAAF Diamond Race points with a third place at

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after Sofia Assefa, the original winner, was disqualified for a lane violation. At the Kenyan Championships Jepkemoi placed second and gained selection for the

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, where she won bronze despite falling at the water jump. At the Kenyan Olympic Trials, however, she only placed fifth and failed to qualify for the Olympic team. ''

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'' ranked Jepkemoi ninth in the world for 2012, her first top ten ranking. In 2013 Jepkemoi only placed fourth at the Kenyan Championships but third at the World Championships Trials, qualifying for the Kenyan team to the

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. At the World Championships, she placed sixth with a new personal best time of 9:22.05; she ended the year ranked seventh in the world, up two places from the previous year. In 2014 Jepkemoi's best race was at the

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meeting, where she ran 9:22.58 and narrowly won ahead of Morocco's Salima Alami. Jepkemoi opened 2015 with a near-personal-best of 9:22.11 at the

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meeting, placing third behind

Virginia Nyambura Virginia Nyambura Nganga (born 20 July 1993) is a Kenyan running, runner who specialises in the steeplechase (athletics), steeplechase. She was the gold medallist in the steeplechase at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and won her first senior medal ...

and Ayalew. In her next Diamond League meeting, the

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, she improved her personal best by almost seven seconds and won in a meeting record 9:15.08, defeating both Nyambura and Ayalew. Three days later she was runner-up to Nyambura at the

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in Birmingham, her third consecutive Diamond Race points finish. At the

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, she secured the silver medal with a time of 9:07.12, where only

Ruth Jebet Ruth Jebet (born 17 November 1996) is a Kenyan-born long-distance runner and steeplechase specialist who competes internationally for Bahrain. She was the world record holder and was the 2016 Olympic gold medalist in the 3000 metres steeplechase, ...

ran faster than her. She won the bronze medal five years later in

finishing behind

Peruth Chemutai Peruth Chemutai (born July 10, 1999) is a Ugandan steeplechase runner. She won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase race, becoming the first Ugandan woman ever to win an Olympic medal. Hai ...

and

Courtney Frerichs Courtney Frerichs (born January 18, 1993) is an American middle-distance runner and steeplechase specialist from Nixa, Missouri, She is a three-time silver medalist in the 3000 meters steeplechase capturing silver at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Game ...

International competitions

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jepkemoi, Hyvin Kiyeng 1992 births Living people Kenyan female steeplechase runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Kenya World Athletics Championships medalists Kalenjin people Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Kenya Olympic silver medalists for Kenya Olympic bronze medalists for Kenya Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) African Games gold medalists for Kenya African Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Kenyan female cross country runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 All-Africa Games World Athletics Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics