Rose Chelimo (born 12 July 1989) is a Kenyan-born Bahraini long-distance runner who competes in road running events up to the marathon distance.
In France that year she was runner-up at the Paris-Versailles and won the 20K de Paris and Grand Nancy Half Marathon.
She missed the 2013 season but returned in mid-2014 with a string of victories, including the Alsterlauf, Bredase Singelloop (in a best of 68:40 minutes) and the Paris 20K.
[3] After a win at the České Budějovice Half Marathon,[5] she gained Bahraini citizenship and began competing for that country.
[6] In her Olympic debut at the 2016 Rio Games she had an eighth-place finish in 2:27:36 hours, while her teammate Eunice Kirwa took the silver.