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Her last competition was during the 2019 Outdoor Meeting in Israel where she competed over the 10,000m and finished third.
The 2009 World Cross-Country champion Florence Kiplagat will make her return into competitive athletics at the Stockholm Marathon 0n Saturday, 3rd June 2023.
She has been out of competition for four years since her last competition was during the 2019 Outdoor Meeting in Israel where she competed over the 10,000m and finished third. The Sirgoech Secondary School alumnus is one of the leading entrants to the event.
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ATHLETICS Imperious debut gets Manangoi drooling for Budapest 1500m crown
The 30-year-old is a former 1500m world Champion.
She will be lining up with a Personal Best time of 2:19:44, a time she clocked while winning the 2011 Berlin Marathon. She is the fastest in the field that has also attracted the Ethiopian duo of Tadelech Bekele and Sifan Melaku.
Kiplagat will be testing if she still has the mileage in her against the duo who unlike her, have been competing. Melaku opened her season with an impressive fifth-place finish at the Mumbai Marathon and she will be keen to improve on that as she takes on her opponents.
On her part, Tadelech will be opening her season in Stockholm. The last time she was in competition was during the Zurich Marathon in May 2022 where she also finished fifth.
Kiplagat has a decorated career owing to the fact that she ruled the track and road races before taking the break.
She is a former world half marathon record holder, status she achieved after winning the Barcelona Half Marathon in 2015. Winning the cross-country senior race title in 2009 also saw her become the second Kenyan to achieve the gong after Hellen Chepngeno who won in 1994.
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09:45 - 26.05.2023
ATHLETICS ‘Records are meant to be broken’ - Kipchoge backs youngster to run sub-two-hour marathon
The two-time Olympic champion believes the 23-year-old has shown enough in a short period of time that he is cable of lowering his world records
Kiplagat also boasts of two Berlin Marathon titles, one in 2011 when she was debuting and the other one during the 2013 edition. She is also a two-time Chicago Marathon champion.
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