Vivian Cheruiyot

Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot (born 11 September 1983)[2] is a Kenyan long-distance runner. She represented Kenya at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2008, 2012, and 2016, winning the silver medal in the 5000 metres and bronze in the 10,000 metres at the 2012 London Olympics as well as gold in the 5000 m and silver in the 10,000 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, setting a new Olympic record in the former. Cheruiyot won the silver medal in the 5000 m at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and became the world champion in the event at the 2009 edition, repeating this achievement in 2011, when she also won the 10000 m. She added gold for the latter event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics. After taking a silver in the 3000 metres at the 2010 World Indoor Championships, Cheruiyot won a number of outdoor 5000 m titles that year, becoming Commonwealth Games, African and Continental Cup champion, as well as winning the Diamond League title.

Vivian Cheruiyot
Cheruiyot at the 2016 Rio Olympics
Personal information
Full nameVivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot
Born (1983-09-11) 11 September 1983
Keiyo, Rift Valley, Kenya[1]
Height1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight40 kg (88 lb)[1]
Sport
CountryKenya
SportAthletics
Event(s)Long-distance running
Achievements and titles
World finals
  • 2007 Osaka
  • 5000 m,  Silver
  • 2009 Berlin
  • 5000 m,  Gold
  • 2011 Daegu
  • 5000 m,  Gold
  • 10,000 m,  Gold
  • 2015 Beijing
  • 10,000 m,  Gold
Olympic finals
  • 2000 Sydney
  • 5000 m, 14th
  • 2008 Beijing
  • 5000 m, 4th
  • 2012 London
  • 5000 m,  Silver
  • 10,000 m,  Bronze
  • 2016 Rio
  • 5000 m,  Gold
  • 10,000 m,  Silver
Personal best(s)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Kenya
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2016 Rio de Janeiro5000 m
Silver medal – second place2012 London5000 m
Silver medal – second place2016 Rio de Janeiro10,000 m
Bronze medal – third place2012 London10,000 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2009 Berlin5000 m
Gold medal – first place2011 Daegu5000 m
Gold medal – first place2011 Daegu10,000 m
Gold medal – first place2015 Beijing10,000 m
Silver medal – second place2007 Osaka5000 m
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place2010 Doha3000 m
Diamond League
First place20105000 m
First place20115000 m
First place20125000 m
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place2010 Delhi5000 m
All-Africa Games
Bronze medal – third place1999 Johannesburg5000 m
African Championships
Gold medal – first place2010 Nairobi5000 m
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place2002 Kingston5000 m
African Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place2001 Réduit5000 m
World Youth Championships
Bronze medal – third place1999 Bydgoszcz3000 m
World Marathon Majors
Gold medal – first place2018 LondonMarathon
Silver medal – second place2018 New YorkMarathon
Silver medal – second place2019 LondonMarathon
World Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place2000 VilamouraJunior race
Gold medal – first place2011 Punta UmbríaSenior race
Gold medal – first place2011 Punta UmbríaSenior team
Silver medal – second place1999 BelfastJunior race
Silver medal – second place2007 MombasaSenior team
Bronze medal – third place2002 DublinJunior race

She is a three-time Diamond League champion having also won the 2011 and 2012 edition. She is the Kenyan record holder for the 2000 m and 10,000 m. In 2012, Cheruiyot was voted Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year.

Career

Vivian Cheruiyot is trained by Ricky Simms.[3] She was born near Keiyo in the Rift Valley Province, coming from the same village as another female runner Alice Timbilili.[4]

Her breakthrough year came in 1999: at the age of fifteen she took the junior silver medal at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships behind Werknesh Kidane. At the 1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics she won the bronze medal in the 3000 metres. Cheruiyot earned a senior call-up for the 1999 All-Africa Games, where she managed a bronze medal in the 5000 metres. She became the junior champion at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Cheruiyot gained selection for the 2000 Olympic Games and reached the 5000 m final after setting personal bests in the qualifying rounds. She was much slower in the final and was the last runner to finish.[5]

Cheruiyot won the silver medal at the 5000 m final of the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan with a time of 14:58.50, behind Meseret Defar in 14:57.91.[6]

In early 2009 she broke the Kenyan indoor 3000 m record with a time of 8:30.53 in Birmingham, and won the World's Best 10K race in Puerto Rico.[7] In May, she won the Great Manchester Run 10K race. Cheruiyot won the women's 5000 m at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin with a time of 14 minutes 58.33 seconds, while countrywoman Sylvia Kibet took the silver. She closed the track season with a 3000 m silver and a 5000 m bronze at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final. She won the 2009 New Year's Eve San Silvestre Vallecana race.[8]

Cheruiyot retained her World's Best 10K title in 2010.[9] An appearance at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships resulted in a silver medal in the 3000 m behind Meseret Defar. Cheruiyot then headed the Kenyan 5000 m challenge at the African Championships in Athletics in Nairobi and beat Defar on this occasion to take the African title.[10] After this, her main focus of the year was the Diamond League. She took victories in the 5000 m at the Meeting Areva and Memorial van Damme and was elected the inaugural Diamond League Trophy winner for the event on overall points.[11] She defeated Sentayehu Ejigu at the Continental Cup to take the 5000 m gold medal for Africa.[12] Another gold medal in the event came at the Commonwealth Games held that year in Delhi, where she headed a Kenyan podium sweep with Sylvia Kibet and Ines Chenonge.[13] Cheruiyot returned to Kenya to train and took an 8 km win at the Tuskys Cross Country meeting.[14] She ended the year on a high note with a win at the BOclassic 5K race on New Year's Eve.[15]

Cheruiyot began preparing for the World Cross Country Championships in January 2011 and came third at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country before overhauling Linet Masai to win the Cross de Itálica in Seville.[16][17] A second-place finish at the Kenyan Cross Country Championships guaranteed her a place in the Kenyan squad and, in contrast to her successes on the track, she was looking to win her first cross country medal on the world stage.[18] Her rival Masai led the initial charge at the World Cross Country Championships, but Cheruiyot broke away on the final lap to secure the gold medal and lead Kenya to the women's team title.[19]

She started 2012 with a win at the World's Best 10K and improved her best on the roads to 30:47 minutes.[20] She opened the Diamond League circuit with narrow wins ahead of Meseret Defar, first in the 3000 m in Doha and then over 5000 m in Rome.[21] Cheruiyot guaranteed her place at the Olympics by winning the 10,000 m trial in Nairobi in June.[22] At the Olympics, she won the silver medal in the 5000 metres and a bronze at the 10,000 metres.[1]

In 2018, she won the 2018 London Marathon with a time of 2:18:31.[2]

She took second place in the 2018 New York City Marathon, finishing in 2:26:02 far behind winner Mary Keitany in 2:22:48, and 20 seconds ahead of Shalane Flanagan who ran 2:26:22.[23]

Achievements
Vivian Cheruiyot races the 10,000 m at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics held in Daegu, South Korea.
Cheruiyot celebrates her 10,000 m victory at Daegu 2011. She won also the 5000 m final six days later.
Vivian Cheruiyot (R) and Hellen Obiri (L), 1–2 in the 5000 m, celebrate their success at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

All information taken from World Athletics profile.[2]

Personal bests
TypeEventTime (m:s)VenueDateNotes
Track 1500 metres4:06.6hNairobi, Kenya18 May 2012
2000 metres5:31.52Eugene, OR, United States7 June 2009NR
3000 metres8:28.66Stuttgart, Germany23 September 2007
3000 metres indoor8:30.53Birmingham, United Kingdom21 February 2009
Two miles indoor9:12.35Birmingham, United Kingdom20 February 2010
5000 metres14:20.87Stockholm, Sweden29 July 2011
10,000 metres29:32.53Rio de Janeiro, Brazil12 August 2016NR
Road 5 kilometres15:11London, United Kingdom6 September 2009
10 kilometres30:47San Juan, Puerto Rico26 February 2012
10 miles51:17Portsmouth, United Kingdom25 October 2015
Half marathon1:06:34Lisbon, Portugal17 March 2019
Marathon2:18:31London, United Kingdom22 April 2018

International competitions
Representing  Kenya
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTime
1998 World Cross Country Championships Marrakech, Morocco 5th Junior race (6 km) 19:47
1999 World Cross Country Championships Belfast, Northern Ireland 2nd Junior race (6.124 km) 21:37
All-Africa Games Johannesburg, South Africa 3rd 5000 m 15:42.79
World Youth Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 3rd 3000 m 9:04.42
2000 World Cross Country Championships Vilamoura, Portugal 1st Junior race (6.29 km) 20:34
2001 World Cross Country Championships Ostend, Belgium 4th Junior race (5.9 km) 20:22
African Junior Championships Réduit, Mauritius 1st 5000 m 16:19.54
2002 World Cross Country Championships Dublin, Ireland 3rd Junior race (5.962 km) 20:22
World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 3rd 5000 m 15:56.04
2004 World Cross Country Championships Brussels, Belgium 8th Short race (4 km) 13:23
2006 World Cross Country Championships Fukuoka, Japan 8th Short race (4 km) 13:10
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 3rd 3000 m 8:38.86
5th 5000 m 16:07.95
2007 World Cross Country Championships Mombasa, Kenya 8th Long race (8 km) 28:10
World Championships Osaka, Japan 2nd 5000 m 14:58.50
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 2nd 3000 m 8:28.66 PB
1st 5000 m 14:56.94
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China 4th 5000 m 15:46.32
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 2nd 3000 m 8:44.64
2nd 5000 m 14:54.60
2009 World Championships Berlin, Germany 1st 5000 m 14:57.97
World Athletics Final Thessaloniki, Greece 2nd 3000 m 8:30.61
3rd 5000 m 15:26.21
2010 World Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 2nd 3000 m 8:51.85
African Championships Nairobi, Kenya 1st 5000 m 16:18.73
Continental Cup Split, Croatia 1st 5000 m 16:05.74
Commonwealth Games New Delhi, India 1st 5000 m 15:55.12
2011 World Cross Country Championships Punta Umbría, Spain 1st Senior race (8 km) 24:58
World Championships Daegu, South Korea 1st 5000 m 14:55.36
1st 10,000 m 30:48.98
2012 Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 2nd 5000 m 15:04.73
3rd 10,000 m 30:30.44
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 1st 10,000 m 31:41.31
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1st 5000 m 14:26.17 OR
2nd 10,000 m 29:32.53 NR

Marathon competition record
YearCompetitionVenuePositionTimeNotes
2003 Vitoria Marathon Vittoria, Spain 1st 2:41:09 13 April
2017 London Marathon London, United Kingdom 4th 2:23:50 23 April
Frankfurt Marathon Frankfurt, Germany 1st 2:23:35 29 October
2018 London Marathon London, United Kingdom 1st 2:18:31 22 April
New York Marathon New York, NY, United States 2nd 2:26:02 4 November
2019 London Marathon London, United Kingdom 2nd 2:20:14 28 April
Valencia Marathon Valencia, Spain 4th 2:18:52 1 December

Circuit wins and titles
5000 metres wins, other events specified in parentheses

National titles

Recognition

References
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  2. "Vivian Jepkemoi CHERUIYOT – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. The Standard, 28 January 2007:Back with a ‘killer kick’
  4. Daily Nation, 11 August 1999: No changes expected in squad
  5. Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Women's 5,000 metres. Sports-Reference. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  6. "2007 World Championships Women's 5000m final". IAAF. Archived from the original on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
  7. "Kitwara and Cheruiyot, new champions and men's record at World's Best 10K". IAAF. 1 March 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
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