Lornah Kiplagat
De Nederlandse hardloopster Lornah Kiplagat gebruikt de sportvoeding die haar persoonlijke voorkeur heeft: SiS sportvoeding!
Hieronder het CV van deze wereldtopper met onder meer haar indrukwekkende palmares en persoonlijke records.
Hieronder het CV van deze wereldtopper met onder meer haar indrukwekkende palmares en persoonlijke records.
Familyname: Kiplagat
First names: Lornah
Date of birth: May 1, 1974
Place of birth: Kabiemit, Kenya (Keiyo district, Rift Valley province)
Citizenship: Netherlands
Marital status: married
Coach: Pieter Langerhorst
Manager: Pieter Langerhorst
Sponsors: Adidas, Oakley
Suppliers: Sience in Sport, Precor Fitness
Club: AV Hylas, Alkmaar
Length/weight: 1m67, 49 kg
History
Lornah started running in school and was granted a scholarship for the school of medicine in India in 1995. She decided to first try her luck in athletics and made it immediately to the National team of Kenya. She ran her first marathon in1997, the Los Angeles Marathon, and won.
In 2002 she married in the Netherlands and in 2003 she became a citizen of the Netherlands. She represented her new country for the first time in the 2003 World Championships and later in the Olympics in 2004 and 2008.
In 1999 Lornah founded the High Altitude Training Centre in Iten, Kenya where many national athletics teams and individuals of many countries prepare at 2400 metre altitude for their races.
Lornah is the founder of the Lornah Kiplagat Foundation which is setting up the Lornah Kiplagat Sports Academy in Kenya. The LKSA will be a boarding high school for 300 to 600 girls from very poor background from all over Kenya. They will combine academics at a high level with sport at a high level.
Personal Bests
5 K road: 14.47 World record
10.000 m: 30.12
10k road: 30.32
15k: 46.59 European record
20 K: 1:02:57 World record
10 miles: 50.50 World record
½ marathon: 1.06.25 World record
Marathon: 2.22.22
Best Results
IAAF World Champion Half marathon 2006, 2007, 2008
IAAF World Champion Cross Country 2007
European Champion Cross Country 2005
2nd IAAF World Championships Cross 2006
2nd IAAF World Championships Half Marathon 2005
Winner of Los Angeles Marathon ( 1997 & 1998 ), Amsterdam Marathon, Osaka Ladies Marathon, Rotterdam, top 3 in New York City and Chicago marathons.
Aims World’s best athlete of the year 2006 & 2007
Winner of the UN Millenium Shoe Aaward & Abebe Bikila Aaward
Lornah has won over 100 of the World’s best road races and is often mentioned as best female road racer ever.
