Ann Karindi Mwangi (born 8 December 1988) is a Kenyan middle- and

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. She was a team gold medallist at the

IAAF World Cross Country Championships World Athletics Cross Country Championships is the most important competition in international cross country running. Formerly held annually and organised by World Athletics (formerly the IAAF), it was inaugurated in 1973, when it replaced the In ...

in 2009 and represented her country at the

2011 All-Africa Games The 10th All-Africa Games (), also known as Maputo 2010, took place between September 3–18, 2011 in Maputo, Mozambique. Maputo's hosting marked the third time the Games was held in the southern part of the continent. Host awarding In April 20 ...

. From

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in Kenya's

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, She moved to Japan and ran for the

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corporate team. She set a stage record at the 2010 All-Japan Women's Corporate Ekiden Championships. Running for Kenya, she won her first major medal at the

2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 28, 2009. The races were held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan. Four races took place, one for men, women, junior men and junior women respectively. All races ...

. In seventh place, she took the women's team title with the help of

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and Lineth Chepkurui. She won the Cross Zornotza the following year and had her first top level road win in Japan at the Sanyo Women's 10K. She began to focus more on middle-distance after 2009. She was sixth in the

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at both the

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and the

. She helped set a

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in the 4 × 1500 metres relay event. Running in a team with Mercy Cherono, Irene Jelagat, and Perin Nenkampi, the women took two seconds off the previous best at 17:05.72 minutes.

Personal bests

800 metres The 800 metres, or 800 meters (American and British English spelling differences#-re.2C -er, US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of a ...

– 2:04.69 min (2015) *

– 4:05.23 min (2014) *

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000 m sho ...

– 8:43.54 min (2009) *

5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a sta ...

– 15:15.19 min (2010) *

10K run The 10K run is a long-distance road running competition over a distance of . Also referred to as the 10K road race, 10 km, or simply 10K, it is one of the most common types of road running event, alongside the shorter 5K and longer half ...

– 32:47 min (2011) All information from All-Athletics profileAnn Karindi Mwangi
All-Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-09-03.

International competitions

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mwangi, Ann Karindi 1988 births Living people People from Laikipia County Sportspeople from Rift Valley Province Kenyan female middle-distance runners Kenyan female long-distance runners World record setters in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 All-Africa Games Kenyan female cross country runners Kenyan expatriate sportspeople in Japan African Games athletes for Kenya