Key facts
- 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)
- Country
- Kenya
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Long-distance running
- Olympic finals
- 2012 London Marathon - 19th
- World finals
- 2011 Daegu Marathon - Gold 2013 Moscow Marathon - Gold 2015 Beijing Marathon - 5th 2017 London Marathon - Silver 2019 Doha Marathon - 4th
- Personal bests
- Marathon : 2:19:50 ( London 2012) Half marathon : 1:07:57 ( Glasgow 2014) 10 km : 31:06 ( Boston 2016) Track 10,000 m : 33:27.0 ( Nairobi 2007) 5000 m : 15:57.3 ( Nairobi 2006)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edna
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kenya
- Place of birth
- Burnt Forest
- Occupation
- police officer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 2012 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Kenya
- Mass
- 49
- Image
- Edna Kiplagat Moscow 2013.jpg
- Height
- 170
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- Commons category
- Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat
- date of birth
- 1979-11-15
- sports discipline competed in
- marathon
- name in native language
- Edna Kiplagat
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Encyclopedic overview
Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat (born 15 November 1979) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner. She was the 2011 and 2013 World Champion in the marathon. She established herself as an elite marathon runner with wins at the Los Angeles and New York City Marathons in 2010, and with four overall wins, she’s tied for the third-most women’s World Marathon Majors titles. She is also the oldest winner of a World Marathon Major, male or female, winning the 2021 Boston Marathon at age 41.
Her personal best for the distance is 2:19:50 hours, set at the London Marathon in 2012. At age 37, Kiplagat won the 2017 Boston Marathon in a time of 2:21:52 hours, and won the marathon silver medal at the IAAF World Championships in London. At age 39, she was second at the 2019 Boston Marathon and fourth in the event at the following World Championships.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edna Kiplagat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.