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About Lydiah Chepkurui
- Lydiah Tum Chepkurui (born 23 August 1984) is a Kenyan track and field athlete who competes in the 3000 metres steeplechase.
- Her best of 9:13.75 minutes ranks her in the top twenty of all-time in the event. She competed at a relatively low level of athletics in her early career.
- She was third in the 800 metres at the 2006 Kenyan Police Championships.
- She was one of three Kenyan entrants in the heptathlon at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics and, although her run of 2:15.40 minutes in the final 800 m event was easily the best in the field, she finished last with a total of 3676 points as she performed to a poor international standard in the other events (including 20.76 seconds for the 100 metres hurdles and 6.83 m for the shot put).A switch to the steeplechase in 2011 brought her to an international standard for the first time.
- She reduced her best time to 9:30.73 minutes over the course of the season, finished fifth at the London Grand Prix and placed fourth at the 2011 All-Africa Games.
- She did not reach the Olympics the following year, ending up sixth at the Kenyan Trials, but performed well on the 2012 IAAF Diamond League circuit.
- She came third in Shanghai, fifth at the Bislett Games, second at the Meeting Areva, and fourth at the Weltklasse Zurich and DN Galan meets.
- Her best that year came in Stockholm and the time of 9:14.98 minutes ranked her eighth in the world that year.
- This was also enough to rank her in the top twenty of all-time in the relatively new event.Chepkurui produced her first major victory at the Doha Diamond League meet in May 2013.
- She ran a personal best of 9:13.75 minutes and defeated a field including Olympic medallists such as Habiba Ghribi, Sofia Assefa and Milcah Chemos Cheywa.
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