Helena Kirop

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Kirop running at the 2008 Berlin Marathon, where she came third.

Helena Loshanyang Kirop (born 9 September 1976) is a Kenyan

Prague International Marathon and Venice Marathon
.

Kirop was the runner-up at the 2006

World Championships in Athletics
in 2009.

She is the head of the Helena Kirop Foundation, a charitable organisation aiming to provide education to girls in poor families in the Turkana and Pokot communities.[1]

Career

Born in

Ottawa Marathon then set a significant personal best of 2:28:51 hours to finish as runner-up behind Rose Cheruiyot at the 2006 Amsterdam Marathon.[4]

In her second year of marathon running she was second at the Rotterdam Marathon and improved her best further at the Berlin Marathon, where she came third in a time of 2:26:27 hours. Kirop returned to the Berlin race in 2008 and although she was third for a second year running, she again bettered her time with a run of 2:25:01 hours.[5] At the 2009 Dubai Marathon she ran the second fastest time of her career (2:25:35) in spite of rainy conditions and finished in third place behind Ethiopians Bezunesh Bekele and Atsede Habtamu.[6] She made her debut at the Boston Marathon that April, but this outing was less successful than her one in Dubai as she finished in fifth place.[5]

Kirop was selected for the

Shoe4Africa 5K in Iten, which she had only entered as a training exercise to improve her speed.[10]

A month later she ran a personal best of 2:24:54 hours for the marathon, coming third again at the Dubai race.

Prague International Marathon – a minute faster than the previous mark and two minutes ahead of the runner-up Alevtina Ivanova.[13]

Kirop managed only ninth place at the 2011 Dubai Marathon and was sixth in spite of her time of 1:09:50 at the highly competitive

Mary Keitany at the 2011 Portugal Half Marathon and ran a time of 1:08:57 hours (a new personal best).[15] A best in the marathon followed in October at the Venice Marathon, where her time of 2:23:37 hours on the hilly course improved the race record by over three minutes.[16] Another course record run came at the Taipei Marathon in December, as she knocked almost two and a half minutes off Yeshi Esayias' former mark.[17]

A run of 2:26:00 hours at the 2012

Rome City Marathon, where she was slightly faster with a time of 2:24:40 hours.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b Butcher, Pat (2010-05-07). Kirop and Ivuti, traveling two different roads to the Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  2. ^ Helena Kirop. Demadonna. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  3. ^ a b Helena Kirop. Marathon Info. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  4. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  5. ^ a b Helena Kirop Archived 2011-11-10 at the Wayback Machine. World Marathon Majors. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  6. ^ Butcher, Pat (2009-01-16). Despite heavy rains, Gebrselassie clocks 2:05:29 in Dubai. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  7. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  8. ^ Kirop Helena. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  9. ^ Fernandes, Antonio Manuel (2009-10-04). Sang defends, Kirop surprises at Portugal Half Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  10. ^ Makori, Elias (2009-12-21). Training run ends up in victory for Kirop in Iten – Shoe4Africa women’s 5km. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  11. ^ Butcher, Pat (2010-01-21). Gebrselassie fights off back pain and late race challenge to collect third Dubai victory. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  12. ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2010-03-22). Mosop clocks 59:20 in Milan Half Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  13. ^ Butcher, Pat (2010-05-09). Massive breakthrough for Kiptanui - 2:05:39 in Prague Archived 2010-05-28 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  14. ^ Fernandes, Antonio Manuel (2011-03-20). Tadese blazes 58:30 in Lisbon, second fastest Half Marathon ever. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  15. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2011-09-30.
  16. ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2011-10-23). Kirop smashes women’s record in Venice. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-23.
  17. ^ African runners win Taipei marathon. The China Post (2011-12-19). Retrieved on 2011-12-23.
  18. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2012-02-27.
  19. ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2013-03-17). Terfa and Kirop triumph in Rome Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-24.

External links

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