Cynthia Limo
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Representing  Kenya
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2016 Cardiff | Team |
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2016 Cardiff | Individual |
Cynthia Jerotich Limo (born 18 December 1989) is a Kenyan female long-distance runner who competes mainly in road running competition. She has the silver medallist at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 2016. Her half marathon personal best of 66:04 minutes, set in 2016, ranks her as the fourth fastest woman ever for the distance.
Limo had her first successful locally at the 2009 Baringo 15K, where she placed third. The following year she ran at the Kenyan Cross Country Championships, but was far down the field, finishing 46th. It was on the roads of France that she began to establish herself as a high calibre runner. She had top three finishes at the 2010 Nancy Half Marathon and 20 Kilomètres de Paris. She continued to focus on French races in the two subsequent years. Her first win came at the 20 Km de Tours in 2011 and in 2012 she marked her progress with a win at the Humarathon half marathon in a best of 70:06 minutes and a win at the Paris 20K in 65:36 minutes.
Limo gave her first sub-70-minute performance to win at the 2013 Rabat Half Marathon. She finished in top two of all her road races that year, bar a third-place finish at the Humarathon. She won the Saint Denis Marathon and was runner-up at the Paris 20K and the Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale. She moved on from the French circuit in the 2014 season, starting with a win at the Madrid Half Marathon then a highly successful tour of American races which included numerous podium finishes, among them wins at the Steamboat Classic, Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon and runner-up finishes at the Crim 10-Miler and Boston Half Marathon, setting a new best of 68:24 minutes at the latter. She had her first win on home turf at the Baringo Half Marathon in November.
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