Joyciline Jepkosgei
Jepkosgei at the 2017 Prague Half Marathon | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 December 1993 Rift Valley Province, Kenya |
| Sport | |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event | Long-distance running |
Medal record | |
|- | || 2025 London|| Marathon
Joyciline Jepkosgei (born 8 December 1993) is a Kenyan female long-distance runner who competes over distances from 10,000 metres to the marathon. She is the former half marathon world record holder in contests with mixed-gender fields with her personal best of 64:51 minutes, and additionally the former world record holder in the 10 km with 29:43 minutes. She was a bronze medallist over 10,000 m at the African Championships in Athletics in 2016. Jepkosgei ran a world record for the half marathon of 1:04:52 at the Prague Half Marathon in April 2017, becoming the first woman ever to break 65 minutes. She also unofficially broke the IAAF-ratified records for 10 km, 15 km and 20 km along the way, breaking a total of four world records in a single event. She became the first Kenyan ever to break six world records in six months.