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| Nationality | Belgian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 June 1996 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Long distance running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 1500m: 4:14.03 (Oordegem, 2023) 3000m: 8:47.98 (Metz, 2024) 5000m: 15:26.27 (Walnut, 2023) 10,000m 33:20.50 (Malmedy, 2022) 10km: 32:24 (Rotterdam (2023) | ||||||||||||||
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Lisa Rooms (born 17 June 1996) is a Belgian long-distance runner. She is a multiple-time Belgian national champion and a Belgian record holder. [1]
A member of AV Lokeren, in 2019, she became Belgian champion for the first time, over 5000 metres in Brussels. [2]
In 2022 she became the Belgian champion over 5000 metres. [3] That year, she came 15th over 5000m at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich in a time of 15:50.59. [4] At the end of 2022, she changed her coach to Grete Koens after spending eight years with Tim Moriau. [5]
In 2023, she finished in tenth place over 5000m in the at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Chorzów, in a time of 15:44.24. [6] She became the Belgian champion over 5000 metres, 10,000 metres, and the 10 km road race in 2023. [7] She ran a 10 km personal best on the road in Rotterdam in October 2023. [8]
Rooms finished sixth overall and was a bronze medalist in the team event at the 2023 European Cross Country Championships. [9] It was the first time the Belgian women’s team had ever been on the podium at the event. [10]
In February 2024, she set a new Belgian national record in the 3000 metres indoors in Metz. [11] She competed in the 5000 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024. [12] And in December of 2024, she and the Belgium team repeated their result from the previous year on home soil in Brussels and finished third in the women's team event at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey. [13]
Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot 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 5,000 metres and bronze in the 10,000 metres at the 2012 London Olympics as well as gold in the 5,000 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 5,000 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 10,000 m. She added gold for the latter event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics. After taking a silver in the 3,000 metres at the 2010 World Indoor Championships, Cheruiyot won a number of outdoor 5,000 m titles that year, becoming Commonwealth Games, African and Continental Cup champion, as well as winning the Diamond League title.
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