Irene Jelagat (born 10 December 1988) is a Kenyan

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who specializes in the

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. She won the

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at the 2006 World Junior Championships, with a personal best time of 4:08.88 minutes, and finished fifth at the 2008 African Championships. Jelegat represented Kenya in the 1500 m at the

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, but did not progress beyond the heats stage. She competed at the 2009 World Championships, but she fell and did not advance past 1500 metres heats. She came fifth at the

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with a personal best run of 4:09.57 minutes. She improved upon this with a run of 4:07.45 minutes for third place at the Sparkassen Cup in February 2011.Gordon, Ed (2011-02-06)
Oliver, Alamirew post scintillating marks in Stuttgart

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. Retrieved on 2011-02-06.

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1988 births Living people Kenyan female middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Kenya Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games African Games gold medalists for Kenya African Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) African Games athletes for Kenya World Athletics record holders (relay) Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 All-Africa Games Commonwealth Games athletes for Kenya 21st-century Kenyan sportswomen {{Kenya-athletics-bio-stub