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| Full name | Emily Chepar Kimuria | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1975-06-10) 10 June 1975 (age 49) Kenya | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Emily Chepar Kimuria (born 10 June 1975) is a Kenyan long-distance runner, who came second at the 2003 Berlin Marathon. She won the 2004 Hamburg Marathon and the 2005 Venice Marathon.
Kimuria came second at the 2003 Berlin Marathon, in a time of 2:28:18.[1][2] In 2004, Kimuria won the Hamburg Marathon in a time of 2:28:57. She won the race by one second from fellow Kenyan Alice Chelangat.[3] It was her first marathon win.[4] In the same year, she came second at the Amsterdam Marathon in a time of 2:29:45.[5] In 2005, she won the Venice Marathon, after breaking away from Ethiopian Leila Aman after 30 kilometres (19 mi).[4]
In 2006, Kimuria came third at the Singapore Marathon,[6] and won the Greifenseelauf road race in Switzerland.[7] In 2008, she came second at the Prague Marathon, in a time of 2:35:55.[8][9] In 2009, Kimuria came third at the Amsterdam Marathon.[10]
