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Hellen Obiri

Kenyan middle-distance runner

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Hellen Obiri: Kenyan middle-distance runner
Hellen Onsando Obiri is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner. She is the only woman to have won world titles in indoor track, outdoor track and cross country. Obiri is a two-time Olympic 5000 metres silver medallist from the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she also placed fourth over the 10,000 metres. She is a two-time world champion after winning the 5000 m in 2017 and again in 2019, when she set a new championship record. Obiri also took world bronze for the 1500 metres in 2013 and silver in the 10,000 m in 2022. She won the 3000 metres race at the 2012 World Indoor Championships, claimed silver in 2014, and placed fourth in 2018. She is the 2019 World Cross Country champion. Obiri triumphed in the 2023 Boston Marathon, her second marathon race. She places fifth in the half marathon on the world all-time list.

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Great North Run 2022: Tributes paid to Queen before Jacob Kiplimo and Hellen Obiri win races

Tributes are paid to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Great North Run before Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo and Kenya's Hellen Obiri win the elite men's and women's races.
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Eilish McColgan sets British and European 10k record at Great Manchester Run

Eilish McColgan eclipses Paula Radcliffe's 19-year-old British and European record as she finishes runner-up behind Hellen Obiri at the Great Manchester Run.
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Great North Run: Britain's Marc Scott wins men's race as Kenya's Hellen Obiri takes women's title

Britain's Marc Scott wins the Great North Run in Newcastle, with Kenya's Hellen Obiri triumphing in the women's event.
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Diamond League: Obiri wins 5000m as McColgan breaks British record

Kenya's Hellen Obiri wins the women's 5000m in a season-best time of 14 mins 26.38 seconds, with Eilish McColgan finishing fourth in 14 mins 28.55 seconds to break Paula Radcliffe's British record at..
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