Pauline_Kaveke_Kamulu
Pauline Kaveke Kamulu
Kenyan long-distance runner
Pauline Kaveke Kamulu (born 30 December 1994) is a Kenyan female long-distance runner who competes in track, road and cross country running disciplines. She was a medalist at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 2018.
Raised in Machakos County,[1] Kamulu won the Pune Half Marathon at the age of seventeen, setting a course record of 1:08:37 hours.[2] Kamulu made her international debut as a junior at the World Cross Country Championships where she finished in eleventh place and was a non-point scorer on the winning Kenyan junior women's team.[3] Following this she began to compete in Japan and ran with the Route Inn Hotels corporate running team.[1] She won the 5000 metres at the Noboeka Golden Games in 2014 and was tenth over that distance at the All-Japan Corporate Track and Field Championships later that year. She ran at the 2014 and 2015 All-Japan Women's Corporate Ekiden Championships. She showed an aptitude for longer distances with third place at the 2015 Sanyo Women's Half Marathon.[4] After a quiet 2016 she set a series of personal bests in 2017, including 1:08:04 hours for the half marathon, 8:48.27 in the 3000 metres, 14:58.82 in the 5000 m and 31:47.13 for the 10,000 metres.[3] Her half marathon time came from a victory at the Sanyo race in Okayama and this was a new race record.[5]
Kamulu began 2018 with a win at the All-Japan Corporate Half Marathon Championships.[6] She earned her first senior national selection in that event, being part of the Kenyan women's team at the 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.[7] Kamulu established herself among the world's top runners at that competition with a personal best of 1:06:56 hours bringing her a bronze medal and a team silver medal alongside teammates Joyciline Jepkosgei and Ruth Chepngetich.[8]
