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Pamela Jelimo
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Key facts
- Born
- 5 December 1989 ( 1989-12-05 ) (age 36), Nandi District , Rift Valley Province , Kenya
- Height
- 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
- Weight
- 60 kg (132 lb)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pamela
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kenya
- Place of birth
- Nandi County
- Occupation
- middle-distance runner
- Languages spoken
- Swahili
- Participant in
- 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Kenya
- Mass
- 58
- Image
- Pamela Jelimo Bislett Games 2008 cropped.jpg
- Height
- 173
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- Commons category
- Pamela Jelimo
- date of birth
- 1989-12-05
- sports discipline competed in
- 800 metres
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Encyclopedic overview
Pamela Jelimo (born 5 December 1989) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner, specialising in the 800 metres. She won the gold medal in 800 metres at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing at the age of 18. She is the first Kenyan woman to win an Olympic gold medal and also the first Kenyan to win the Golden League Jackpot. She holds both the 800 m world junior record and the senior African record over the same distance. Jelimo is also one of the youngest women to win an Olympic gold medal for Kenya.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pamela Jelimo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.