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Personal Bests

Result
2:18:47
Date
07 OCT 2001
Score
1224
Result
2:13:35 AR
Date
23 NOV 2006
Score
1222
Result
31:02
Date
14 OCT 2001
Score
1191
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Catherine Ndereba

Kenyan marathon runner

Catherine Nyambura Ndereba[1] (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.[2]

In 2008, Ndereba was described by Chicago Tribune sportswriter Philip Hersh as the greatest women's marathoner of all time.[3]

Career

Catherine Ndereba comes from Gatunganga in Nyeri District,[4] and went to Ngorano Secondary School where she pursued her running career. In 1994, she was recruited into its athletics program by the Kenya Prisons Service.[5] Ndereba was awarded the 2004 and 2005 Kenyan S

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Famous People from Kenya:
Catherine Ndereba

Catherine Ndereba


Marathon Runner

Catherine Ndereba was born July 31, 1972 and has become one of the best female Marathon runners in the world.

As a young girl, something special was at work in this daughter so speedy, she could fetch water in half the time her siblings required. As a young woman, something special drove her to finish training runs that forced teammates, men and women, to drop out.
In the summer of 1998, something special compelled her to leave her husband and 1-year-old daughter to compete for three months in the United States.

And then in October of 2001 in Chicago, something special propelled her to one of the greatest achievements in running history. Six days after Japanese marathoner Naoko Takahashi became the first woman to break the elusive 2-hour, 20-minute barrier, Catherine Ndereba obliterated her world record with a time of 2 hours, 18 minutes, 47 seconds. Everyone on the international running circuit did a double take.

Her remarkable record looks as followed:


1995 - Represented Kenya

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