Pauline Njeri Kahenya
Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1985)
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Pauline Njeri Kahenya (born 28 July 1985) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. She specialises in road races. She has won events including the Lidingöloppet; Albacete Half Marathon; Udine Half Marathon; Paris Half Marathon, where she also set a course record in 2012; Stramilano Half Marathon and Buriram Marathon. She has also placed highly at the Hamburg Alsterlauf; Lisbon Half Marathon and Lattelecom Riga Marathon.
Kaheny at the 2012 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Kavarna, Dobrich, Bulgaria | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| National team | Kenya |
| Born | July 28, 1985 Kiambu, Kenya |
Career
In 2008, Kahenya finished second at the Hamburg Alsterlauf in Germany and seventh at the Delhi Half Marathon in India with a time of 1:10:23.[1] She won the cross country race Lidingöloppet in Lidingö, Sweden with a time of 34:16.[1]
In 2010, Kahenya won the sixth stage of the International Chiba Ekiden's Hanji Aoki Cup race at a time of 23:20.[citation needed]
In 2011, Kahenya finished fourth in the Lisbon Half Marathon with a time of 1:08:55;[1] won the Albacete Half Marathon in Spain with a time of 1:11:11;[2] and won the Udine Half Marathon in Italy with a time of 1:10:4.[1] She also came fourth in the 10,000 metres at the All-Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique[1] and competed at the International Chiba Ekiden in Chiba, Japan.[3] Kahenya won the women's 8km race at the Kenya Police Cross Country Championship at the Ngong Race Course in Nairobi, beating New York Marathon champion Edna Kiplagat with a tme of 29:01:02.[4][5]
Kahenya was a member of the Kenyan women's half marathon team at the 2012 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Kavarna, Bulgaria, where the team won the silver medal with a time of 3:28:39.[6][7] She came sixth in the individual women's half marathon event at the Championships with a time of 1:10:22,[8][9] initially in the breakaway pack with Paskalia Chepkorir Kipkoech and Lydia Cheromei,[10] but dropping back in the 42nd minute.[11] Also in 2012, Kahenya won and set a course record at the Paris Half Marathon in France with a time of 1:07:55.[12][13][14] She then won the Pune Half Marathon in India with a time of 1:08:37.[1]
On 23 March 2013, Kahenya won the 42nd Stramilano Half-Marathon in Milan, Italy,[15] after breaking away from Hellen Jepkurgat in the final kilometre.[16][17][18] Later that year, she was given a one year ban until 21 April 2014, after an anti-doping violation for Prednisone and Prednisolone in accordance with World Athletics rules.[19][20][21]
On 20 May 2018, Kahenya came third at the Lattelecom Riga Marathon in Riga, Latvia, finishing behind Georgina Jepkirui Rono and Tigist Teshome Ayanu, with a time of 2:34:41.[22][23][24] In June 2018, she competed at the Safaricom Lewa Half Marathon at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya.[25]
In February 2019, Kahenya won the Buriram Marathon in Thailand, with a time of 2:38:36.[26][27][28] In December 2019, she placed ninth in the Macau Marathon in China with a time of 2:41:13.[29] She also competed at the Falmouth Road Race in Massachusetts, United States, in 2019.[30]
In 2020, Kahenya came third in the Sofia Marathon in Sofia, Bulgaria.[31] She returned to the Sofia Marathon in October 2022, again placing third,[32][33][34] with a time of 3:00:37.[35]