Sally Kipyego

Olympic Games

• 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, 17th (marathon)
• 2012 London Olympic Games, silver (10,000m); fourth (5,000m)*

World Athletics Championships

• 2015 IAAF World Championships, fifth (10,000m)*
• 2011 IAAF World Championships, silver (10,000m)*
• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, eighth*

Career Highlights

• 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon, bronze
• 2019 Berlin Marathon, 7th
• 2017 New York Marathon, silver*
• 2014 New York Half Marathon, gold*
• 2009 NCAA Indoor Championships - 1 mile (silver), 5,000m (gold)
• 2008 NCAA Outdoor Championships - 1,500m (silver), 5,000m (gold)
• 2008 NCAA Indoor Championships - 5,000m (gold)
• 2007 NCAA Indoor Championships - 3,000m (gold), 5,000m (gold)
• 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championships - 5,000m (silver), 10,000m (gold)

* Representing Kenya

Personal

Married Kevin Chelimo in 2008… Discovered she was four weeks pregnant after finishing second at the New York City Marathon… Gave birth to their daughter, Emma, in July 2017… Became a U.S. citizen in 2017 but wasn’t cleared to compete for the U.S. until August 2019… Was supposed to run the 2018 New York City Marathon, but contracted malaria and pneumonia… Qualified for her second Olympic team (first as an American) with her third-place finish in Atlanta… Made her first World Championships team in 2011, representing Kenya in the 10,000m and earning a silver medal… Then at the 2012 Olympics, earned silver in the 10,000m and finished fourth in the 5,000m… The first Kenyan to capture an NCAA cross country individual championship and the first female in Division I history to capture three consecutive NCAA cross country titles…