Sheila Chepkirui

Sheila Chepkirui
Personal information
Full name	Sheila Chepkirui Kiprotich
Nationality	Kenyan
Born	27 December 1990 (age 33)
Sport
Country	Kenya
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Middle-, Long-distance running
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	1500 m: 4:12.29 (Marrakesh 2005); 3000 m: 8:45.94 (Somerville 2017); 5000 m: 14:54.05 (London 2017); 10,000 m: 30:45.81 (Stockholm 2021); Road; 10 km: 29:46 (Valencia 2020); Half marathon: 1:04:36 (Ras Al Khaimah 2022); Marathon: 2:17:29 (Valencia 2022);
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Kenya
Commonwealth Games
African Championships
World Youth Championships
African Cross Country Championships

Sheila Chepkirui Kiprotich (born 27 December 1990) is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner who competed earlier mainly in the 1500 metres and 5000 metres. She won the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Chepkirui was the 5000 m 2016 African champion, setting the championship record.

As of September 2022, she placed fourth in the 10 km road race on the world all-time list.

Career

In her youth, Sheila Chepkirui competed in age category competitions. She defeated Yuriko Kobayashi over 1500 m at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics to claim her first international gold medal. Her finishing time of in a 4:12.29 minutes was a championship record.^[1] She returned to defend her title two years later, but ended up as bronze medallist at the 2007 event.^[2] She failed to improve at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics and did not get past the heats. She dropped out of the sport after that year.^[3]

Chepkirui joined up with Kenya Defence Forces and began competing at their track competitions again around 2012.^[4] She returned to top-level competition in late 2015. Good performances at national cross country running meets culminated in her finishing third at the Kenyan Cross Country Championships.^[5]^[6]^[7] She was chosen for the 2016 African Cross Country Championships and in her senior debut she took the silver medal as part of a Kenyan podium sweep with Alice Aprot and Beatrice Mutai.^[8] Later that year she won the 5000 m at the Kenyan Athletics Championships, and won her first senior title competing in the event at the 2016 African Championships in Athletics, setting a championship record of 15:05.45 minutes.^[9]^[10]

In September 2022, she came close to the women-only 10 kilometres world record at the Brașov Running Festival in Brașov, Romania. With her time of 30:07 Chepkirui, who set her 29:46 personal best in a mixed race in Valencia in 2020, broke the Romanian all-comers's record by more than two minutes, and was only six seconds off the women-only world record.^[11]

International competitions

Representing Kenya
Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2005	World Youth Championships	Marrakech, Morocco	1st	1500 m	4:12.29
2007	World Youth Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	3rd	1500 m	4:19.26
2008	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	15th (h)	1500 m	4:24.21
2016	African Cross Country Championships	Yaoundé, Cameroon	2nd	Senior race	30:44
	African Cross Country Championships	Yaoundé, Cameroon	1st	Senior team	11 pts
	African Championships	Durban, South Africa	1st	5000 m	15:05.45 CR
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	7th	5000 m	14:54.05
2022	2022 World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	–	10,000 m	DNS
2022	Commonwealth Games	Birmingham, United Kingdom	3rd	10,000 m	31:09.46

National titles

Kenyan Athletics Championships
- 5000 metres: 2016, 2019

References

^ Event Report - Girls' 1500 metres Final. IAAF (2005-07-15). Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ Girls 1500m Final. IAAF (2007-07-13). Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ Sheila Chepkirui Kiprotich. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ Mutuota, Mutwiri (2012-05-12). Obiri polishes off opponents in Nairobi. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ Mills, Steven (2016-01-31). Karoki dominates proceedings in Eldoret – cross-country round-up. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ Mills, Steven (2015-12-20). McCormack finally claims elusive win in Brussels – cross-country round-up. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ Mutuota, Mutwiri (2016-02-13). Kamworor and Aprot win at penultimate IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting in Nairobi. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ Kenya rules at African Cross Country Championships. IAAF (2016-03-12). Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ Botton, Wesley (2016-06-23). Sprint double for Ivory Coast but hosts South Africa dominate at African Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ Sheila Chepkirui. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.
^ "Fast 10km times from Kipkorir and Chepkirui as records fall in Brasov". World Athletics. 27 September 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.

External links

Sheila Chepkirui at World Athletics

[1] Event Report - Girls' 1500 metres Final. IAAF (2005-07-15). Retrieved on 2016-07-02.

[2] Girls 1500m Final. IAAF (2007-07-13). Retrieved on 2016-07-02.

[3] Sheila Chepkirui Kiprotich. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.

[4] Mutuota, Mutwiri (2012-05-12). Obiri polishes off opponents in Nairobi. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.

[5] Mills, Steven (2016-01-31). Karoki dominates proceedings in Eldoret – cross-country round-up. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.

[6] Mills, Steven (2015-12-20). McCormack finally claims elusive win in Brussels – cross-country round-up. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.

[7] Mutuota, Mutwiri (2016-02-13). Kamworor and Aprot win at penultimate IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting in Nairobi. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.

[8] Kenya rules at African Cross Country Championships. IAAF (2016-03-12). Retrieved on 2016-07-02.

[9] Botton, Wesley (2016-06-23). Sprint double for Ivory Coast but hosts South Africa dominate at African Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.

[ARRS-10] Sheila Chepkirui. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2016-07-02.

[11] "Fast 10km times from Kipkorir and Chepkirui as records fall in Brasov". World Athletics. 27 September 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.

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