📰 Newspapers

Happy 47th birthday Edna Kiplagat! Still running 160km a week and loving it

Happy 47th birthday Edna Kiplagat! Still running 160km a week and loving it

Kiplagat, who turns 47 today, is already thinking of her next Majors marathon race.

When Edna Kiplagat crossed the finish line in fourth place at the New York Marathon on November 1, she had more than just another impressive result to celebrate.

Then 46 years and 351 days old, the Kenyan marathon great once again demonstrated that experience, discipline and an enduring passion for running could keep an athlete competitive long after many of her contemporaries had retired.

In brief

When Edna Kiplagat crossed the finish line in fourth place at the New York Marathon on November 1, she had more than just another impressive result to celebrate. Then 46 years and 351 days old, the Kenyan marathon great once again demonstrated that experience, discipline and an enduring passion for running could keep an athlete competitive long after many of her contemporaries had retired.

This is the opening of the story, shared with credit to Daily Nation. The rest of the report — with every detail — continues on the publisher’s website.

Continue reading at Daily Nation ↗

Cookie settings

Choose which cookies we may use. You can change this at any time from Cookie settings in the footer. Details of each cookie are in the Cookie Policy.

Strictly necessary

Needed for sign-in, security, payments and remembering these choices. Always on.

Preferences

Remember settings such as dark mode.

Analytics & performance

Help us count visits, understand which pages, devices and countries our readers use, and measure how well the site performs – anonymous and aggregated.

Advertising & marketing

Lets advertising partners show and personalise adverts, measure impressions, clicks and visits, prevent ad fraud and pay us – this is how the free site is funded.

🔔 News notifications

Get headlines from NewsHub on this device — even when the site is closed.

You can switch this off at any time. Works on Android, Windows, Mac and Linux browsers; on iPhone/iPad add the site to your Home Screen first.