Catherine Nyambura Ndereba[1] (born 21 July 1972) is a Kenyan marathon runner. She has twice won the marathon at the World Championships in Athletics and won silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games in 2004 and 2008. She is also a four-time winner of the Boston Marathon. Ndereba broke the women's marathon world record in 2001, running 2:18:47 at the Chicago Marathon.
Kenyan marathon runner
Catherine Ndereba
Ndereba at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.
Medal record
Representing Kenya
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
2004 Athens
Marathon
2008 Beijing
Marathon
World Championships
2003 Paris
Marathon
2007 Osaka
Marathon
2005 Helsinki
Marathon
World Marathon Majors
2006 New York City
Marathon
2005 Boston
Marathon
2004 Boston
Marathon
2003 New York City
Marathon
2003 London
Marathon
2002 Chicago
Marathon
2002 Boston
Marathon
2001 Chicago
Marathon
2001 Boston
Marathon
2000 Chicago
Marathon
2000 Boston
Marathon
1998 New York City
Marathon
In 2008, Ndereba was described by Chicago Tribune sportswriter Philip Hersh as the greatest women's marathoner of all time.[2]
Career
Ndereba is from Gatunganga in Nyeri District,[3] and went to Ngorano Secondary School where she pursued her running career. In 1994, she was recruited into its athletics program by the Kenya Prisons Service.[4] Ndereba was awarded the 2004 and 2005 Kenyan Sportswoman of the Year awards.[5] She was awarded the Order of the Golden Warrior by President Mwai Kibaki in 2005.[6]
Ndereba finished seventh at the 2009 London Marathon, equalling Katrin Dorre's record of 21 sub-2:30 hours marathons.[7] She placed third at the Yokohama Women's Marathon later that year, finishing the course in a time of 2:29:13 hours.[8] She did not finish another marathon race until October 2011, when she crossed the line in 2:30:14 hours for third at the Beijing Marathon.[9]
Ndereba, whose nickname is "Catherine the Great",[10] lives in Nairobi with her husband Anthony Maina and daughter Jane.[11] Her brother Samuel and sister Anastasia are also marathon runners.[12]
Achievements
Ndereba competing in the 2005 World Championships marathon
1995
Represented Kenya internationally for the first time at a women's relay race in Seoul, Korea
1996
Ranked No. 2 in USA Track and Field's World Road Running Rankings; named Road Runner of the Year by Runner's World magazine and Road Racer of the Year by Running Times
1997
Did not race
Gave birth to daughter, Jane.
1998
Named Road Runner of the Year by Runner's World and Road Racer of the Year by Running Times
Won individual bronze and team gold at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Palermo, Italy
Ran the world's fastest times for the year at 5 kilometres (15:09), 12 kilometres (38:37), 15 kilometres (48:52), and 10 miles (53:07).[13]
Made her marathon debut at the Boston Marathon, finishing sixth in 2:28:27 hours
Finished second at the New York City Marathon
2000
Boston Marathon winner
Chicago Marathon winner
Named AIMS World Athlete of the Year by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races[14]
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; etal. "Catherine Ndereba". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
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