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| Full name | Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Kenyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1979-11-15)15 November 1979 (age 46) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Employer | Puma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Kenya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Long-distance running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat (born 15 November 1979) is a Kenyan professionallong-distance runner. She was the2011 and2013World Champion in themarathon.[1] She established herself as an elite marathon runner with wins at theLos Angeles andNew York City Marathons in 2010. Her personal best for the distance is 2:19:50 hours, set at theLondon Marathon in 2012. At age 37, Kiplagat won the2017 Boston Marathon in a time of 2:21:52 hours, and won the marathon silver medal at theIAAF World Championships in London.[2] At age 39, she was second at the2019 Boston Marathon and fourth in the event at the followingWorld Championships. At age 41, she won the2021 Boston Marathon, becoming the oldest-ever winner of a World Marathon Major (male or female).
At the3000 metres distance, Kiplagat won a silver medal at the1996 World Junior Championships and a bronze medal at the1998 World Junior Championships.
She finished thirteenth in the long race at the2006 World Cross Country Championships. In the same season she recorded personal bests in the5000 metres, with 15:57.3 minutes in July in Nairobi, and thehalf marathon, with 1:09:32 hours in October inSan Jose. In June 2007 she ran the10,000 metres in 33:27.0 minutes in Nairobi.[3] She won the 2006Virginia Beach Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon,[4] the 2007Lilac Bloomsday Run and the 2007Bay to Breakers (San Francisco).
Kiplagat finished second behindEmily Chebet at the 2010Freihofer's Run for Women, running a time of 15:20 and winning $5000 in the process.[5] She managed third place at theBeach to Beacon race in August 2010,[6] and completed the same feat at theFalmouth Road Race two weeks later (finishing behindLineth Chepkurui andWude Ayalew at both competitions).[7]
Kiplagat won theLos Angeles Marathon in 2010, only her second marathon ever, and went on to win the2010 New York City Marathon. She defeated two marathon debutantes,Shalane Flanagan of the United States andMary Keitany of Kenya, who took second and third, respectively.
She ran a career best of 1:09:00 at theNew York City Half Marathon, finishing as runner-up behindCaroline Rotich.[8] She took on Keitany again at the2011 London Marathon, but was outrun by her domestic rival. Still, Kiplagat was pleased with her third-place performance as her time of 2:20:46 marked a significant personal best, improving upon her previous time by almost five minutes.[9] Kiplagat was the race favourite for the2011 World Championships Marathon and delivered on her form, taking the women's title in a time of 2:28:43 hours. Her win did not look assured when she fell over in the last 5 km, but her teammate and eventual third placerSharon Cherop stopped mid-race to help Kiplagat to her feet. Kiplagat, Cherop andPriscah Jeptoo made it a medal sweep for Kenya – the first time that any nation had taken all three medals at a global marathon championship.[1] She entered theMontferland Run with a slight injury and finished as runner-up toAbebech Afework.[10]
She began 2012 on grass and came third at theKenyan Cross Country Championships.[11] This was her preparation for the2012 London Marathon, where she was the last runner to challenge eventual winnerMary Keitany and ended the race as runner-up in a personal best of 2:19:50 hours.[12] Kiplagat was selected for the Kenyan Olympic team as a result.[13] She was a comfortable winner of theNew York Mini 10K in June.[14] At the2012 London Olympics she failed to repeat her success in the British capital and managed only twentieth place in theOlympic marathon with a time of 2:27:52 hours. Six weeks later she ran at theGreat North Run and had a better performance, setting a personal best of 1:07:41 hours while finishing runner-up toTirunesh Dibaba.[15]
Kiplagat finished runner-up in theLondon Marathon for the second consecutive year, on this occasion behind Priscah Jeptoo.[16]
Later in 2013 she became the first woman to retain the marathon world title when she earned the first gold medal on the opening day of theWorld Athletics Championships, taking victory ahead ofValeria Straneo andKayoko Fukushi in a time of 2:25:44 hours.[17]
After finishing on the podium in each of the previous three editions, Kiplagat finally claimed victory at theLondon Marathon ahead of (unrelated) compatriotFlorence Kiplagat in a time of 2:20:21 hours.[18]
Kiplagat ended 2014 with a 2:36:24 finish (13th place) at the2014 New York City Marathon.[19]
Kiplagat returned to the2015 London Marathon with a time of 2:27:16 hours (11th place). She finished in fifth place at the2015 IAAF World Championships inBeijing with a time of2:28:15 hours.[19]
2016 saw Kiplagat return to the Top 3 of major races with significantly faster finishing times than just one year prior. She finished in 2:22:36 hours for 3rd place at the2016 Tokyo Marathon, and in 2:23:28 hours for 2nd place at the2016 Chicago Marathon.[19]
At age 37, Kiplagat won the2017 Boston Marathon in a time of 2:21:52 hours.[2][20]
This victory was her debut Boston Marathon after over a decade of exceptional running. "I have done almost everything in our sport, but it was one of my dreams to run Boston, the world's oldest marathon," says Kiplagat. "And it will also mean I have run five of the six Abbott World Marathon Majors in addition to both the Olympic Games and World Championships."[19]
In August, Kiplagat participated in the2017 World Championships in Athletics held in London. She won the silver medal in thewomen's marathon in a time of 2:27:18. She was preceded byRose Chelimo.[21][22]
Kiplagat competed in the2021 Boston Marathon, which had been moved to theColumbus Day holiday in October, less than one month before her 42nd birthday. She was declared the winner after compatriotDiana Kipyokei, who finished ahead of her by 24 seconds, was disqualified for use of a performance-enhancingcorticosteroid. Kiplagat was retroactively elevated to first place.[23][24] Her victory made her the oldest runner, either male or female, to have won aWorld Marathon Major event. At the time of her win, she was more than three years older than the previous female recordholder,Constantina Diță.
| World Marathon Majors | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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| Tokyo Marathon | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3rd | - | - | - | - | p | - | - | - |
| Boston Marathon | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1st | 9th | 2nd | x | 1st | 4th | 10th | 3rd |
| London Marathon | - | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 10th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Berlin Marathon | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4th | - | x | - | - | - | - |
| Chicago Marathon | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2nd | - | - | - | x | - | - | - | - |
| New York City Marathon | 1st | - | - | 9th | 12th | - | - | 4th | - | - | x | - | 4th | 7th | - |
Kiplagat hails fromIten, Kenya, and trained as a police officer.
"I am one of the role models in my town and country," says Kiplagat. "I have mentored girls in school and I have empowered women to form community associations. I also support less fortunate kids to pay their school fees."[19]
Kiplagat and her husband have five children – two of her own, two adopted from her sister who died of breast cancer in 2003, and one adopted from a neighbor who died in childbirth in 2013. Her children Wendy and Carlos were at the finish line and award ceremony for her victory in the 121st annual Boston Marathon.[25]They live in Longmont Colorado. She started the Edna Kiplagat Foundation to raise awareness of breast cancer.[26] Kiplagat also volunteers to create awareness for garbage management toward keeping a clean environment.[19] Kiplagat is a devoutRoman Catholic.[27]
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