Catherine Ndereba
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Kenyan marathon runner and Olympic medalist
Key facts
- Born
- Wincatherine Nyambura Ndereba , ( 1972-07-21 ) 21 July 1972 (age 53) , Nyeri , Kenya
- Height
- 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
- Weight
- 45 kg (99 lb)
- Country
- Kenya
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Marathon
- Personal best
- 2:18:47 ( Chicago 2001)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Catherine
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kenya
- Place of birth
- Nyeri
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- Swahili
- Participant in
- 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Kenya
- Mass
- 45
- Image
- Osaka07 D9M WMarathon Ndereba running.jpg
- Height
- 160
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- Catherine Ndereba
- date of birth
- 1972-07-21
- sports discipline competed in
- marathon
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Encyclopedic overview
Catherine Nyambura Ndereba (born 21 July 1972) is a retired Kenyan marathon runner. Between 2003 and 2008, she finished in the top two in five successive global championship marathons. Ndereba has twice won the marathon at the World Championships in Athletics and won silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games in 2004 and 2008, becoming Kenya's first female multi-medalist. She is also a four-time winner of the Boston Marathon and a two-time winner of the Chicago Marathon. It was at the latter in 2001 that she broke the women's marathon world record with a time of 2:18:47.
She retired in 2012 having been described by the Chicago Tribune as the greatest women's marathoner of all time.
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