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| Born | September 11, 1963[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 400 metres, 800 metres | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400 m: 51.99 (1987) 800 m: 1:58.1 (1988)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Francisca Chepkurui, HSC[2] (born 11 September 1963) is a retired Kenyan middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 400 metres at the 1987 All-Africa Games in Nairobi. Later in those games she anchored Kenya to a silver medal in set the 4 × 400 metres relay, setting a still-standing Kenyan record of 3:28.94.[1][3]
Later in the 1987 season, Chepkurui competed in the second-ever World Championships in Athletics in both the 400 m and the 4 × 400 m. She did not advance to the finals in either event.
In 1988, Chepkurui moved up to the 800 metres, culminating in August with a 1:58.1 hand-timed personal best which at the time was a Kenyan record and African record. Her national record stood until 2007.[4] She was viewed as a gold medal favorite for the 1988 Summer Olympics, but she was withdrawn from competition before the Games started.[5] The IAAF does not list any results for Chepkurui past 1988.[1]
- ^ a b c d Francisca Chepkurui at World Athletics
- ^ "The Kenya Gazette" (PDF). 11 December 1987.
- ^ "Kenyan National Records". Athletics Kenya. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- ^ ED ODEVEN (30 August 2007). "Worlds notebook; Day5". Japan Times.
- ^ Peter Njenga (2 August 2005). "Kenya: Women Plan to Upstage Men". Daily Nation.
