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| Nationality | Kenya | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 January 1996 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:58.26 (Nairobi, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Vivian Chebet Kiprotich (born 7 January 1996) is Kenyan track and field athlete who competes as a middle-distance runner. [1]
In May 2023, she ran a personal best time of 2:00.53 for the 800 metres at the Kip Keino Classic. [2] In June 2023 she lowered her personal best to a time of 1:58.80 for 800 metres in Huelva. [3] She competed for Kenya at the 2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres in Budapest. [4]
She was selected to compete for Kenya at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships. [5] She ran a personal best indoors time of 2:00.80 to qualify for the semi-final, and lowered it to 1:59.65 to qualify for the final. In the final she finished in fourth place. [6]
In March 2024, she won bronze in the 800 metres at the African Games. [7] She lowered her personal best to 1:58.26 as she finished runner-up to Mary Moraa at the Kip Keino Classic in April 2024. [8] She finished second in the 800 metres at the 2024 BAUHAUS-galan in Stockholm on 2 June 2024. [9]
Laura Muir is a Scottish middle- and long-distance runner. She is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the 1500 metres, having previously finished seventh in the event at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Muir won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships, and has three other top five placings in 1500 m finals at the World Athletics Championships, finishing fifth in 2015, fourth in 2017 and fifth in 2019. She is a two-time European 1500 m champion from 2018 and 2022 as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games 1500 m champion and 800 metres bronze medallist.
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