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Chepkoech looks to maintain momentum in Torun meet

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Beatrice Chepkoech Sitonik is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She is the current world record holder in that event running 8:44.32 in 2018. With that time she became the first woman to break 8:50 and 8:45. She was also a bronze medallist over 1500 metres at the 2015 African Games. [photo courtesy]

World 3000m steeplechase champion Beatrice Chepkoech will aim to continue her record-breaking form when she heads to Torun for the Copernicus Stop today, the next World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of 2021.

Chepkoech has also had a busy few weeks. The 29-year-old Kenyan won the 3000m at the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the year in Karlsruhe, then set an indoor PB of 8:34.21 for that distance to place third in Lievin before heading to Monaco later that week where she set a world 5km record of 14:43.

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