News04 Mar 2014


Kabuu and Kiprop lead Kenya’s team for Copenhagen – IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships

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2010 World Half Marathon champion Wilson Kiprop (© Getty Images)

Kenya, the most successful nation in the history of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, has revealed its team for this year’s edition in Copenhagen on 29 March.

Leading the way is 2010 winner Wilson Kiprop, one of the few men to have beaten five-time champion Zersenay Tadese over the 13.1 mile distance.

He is joined on the team by former world junior cross-country champion Geoffrey Kipsang, the fastest man in the world in the half marathon in 2013 with his 58:54 victory in Ras Al Khaimah.

The other members of the Kenyan men’s team – Robert Kwemoi Chemosin, Simon Cheprot, Kenneth Kiprop Kipkemoi and even reserve Cyprian Kimurgor Kotut – all have personal bests faster than 60 minutes.

Lucy Wangui Kabuu, whose 1:06:09 PB in Ras Al Khaimah last year made her the fastest woman on a legal half-marathon course in 2013, appears to be Kenya’s best hope of glory in the women’s race.

Kabuu has represented Kenya at the IAAF World Championships, Olympic Games and IAAF World Cross Country Championships, but this will be her first appearance at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.

Of her five half-marathon races to date, Kabuu has won all but one of them.

World 10,000m silver medallist Gladys Cherono, who set a PB of 1:06:48 last year, is another strong medal contender.

Kabuu and Cherono are joined on the Kenyan team by Chicago Marathon runner-up Jemima Sumgong Jelagat, recent winner of the World’s Best 10k Mary Wacera and world 10,000m finalist Sally Chepyego, while 1:08:18 performer Mercy Kibarus is the reserve.

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Kenyan team for Copenhagen

Men
Robert Kwemoi Chemosin
Simon Cheprot
Wilson Kiprop
Kenneth Kiprop Kipkemoi
Geoffrey Kipsang
Cyprian Kimurgor Kotut (reserve)

Women
Sally Chepyego
Gladys Cherono
Jemima Sumgong Jelagat
Lucy Wangui Kabuu
Mary Wacera
Mercy Kibarus (reserve)

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