Alice Timbilil

Alice Jemeli Timbilil (born 1 February 1983 in Moiben, Uasin Gishu District) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner.

She won a junior silver medal at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and made her Olympic track debut the following year.

[3] At the age of seventeen, she gained selection for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and reached the 10,000 m final, finishing in fourteenth place with a personal best run of 31:50.22.

She delivered in the long race at the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships the following year, however, as she edged between Tirunesh Dibaba and Werknesh to take her first major senior medal, and also leading Kenyan to a consecutive team silver behind Ethiopia.

[7] Her first major race of 2010 came at the Roma Ostia Half Marathon in February, which she won in a time of 1:10:34, beating home favourite Rosaria Console.

[8] Timbilil took part in the 2010 BIG 25 road race in Berlin in May and took second place with 1:24:38, although this was over three and a half minutes slower than Mary Keitany who set a world record.

[10] At the 2010 Amsterdam Marathon, she was among the leaders from the start and by the 35 km mark she had outrun the field, eventually winning the race by a margin of two minutes with a personal best of 2:25:03.