Margaret Okayo (born
May 30, 1976 in Masaba, Kisii
District) is a successful marathon runner from Kenya
. She
has won a number of major marathons.
Okayo started running while at primary school.
She graduated from the
Itierio Secondary School, located near Kisii
town, in 1993. She was recruited by
Kenya Prisons in 1995 where she nurtured her
running career.
At the
1998 Commonwealth
Games she finished fifth in 10000 metres. She finished 13th at
the
1999
IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Amongst her most successful races are the wins at the
New York Marathon in
2003 and the
Boston
Marathon in
2002. On both these courses she
holds the course record. She set a new world record over the
marathon distance on
4 November 2001 in New York, a record she no longer holds.
Other marathons won by Okayo include the
London Marathon in
2004,
the marathons of
Milan in
2003,
San Diego
in
2000 and
2001.
She
represented her native Kenya in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in
Athens
, Greece
, but did not
finish the marathon.
She spends
three months of every year training in Italy
.
She won the 2003
Udine Half
Marathon and finished 3rd at the 2008
Rome-Ostia Half Marathon .
Okayo is of the
Gusii tribe. She is
managed by
Federico Rosa and coached
by
Gabriele Rosa. She is just 1.52 cm
tall and weighs 43 kilograms.
Marathon record
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