Sharon Lokedi was born on March 10,1994 and is a Kenyan middle and long-distance runner.
16 Facts About Sharon Lokedi
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Sharon Lokedi won the 10,000 meters at the 2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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Sharon Lokedi was recruited to the University of Kansas where she has studied nursing and business.
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Sharon Lokedi began competing first in collegiate track and cross country in 2015.
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Sharon Lokedi is the school record holder in the 3000-meter and 5000-meter races.
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Sharon Lokedi led her team in all of the five 2015 races in which she ran, and became the second All-American in KU program history as a result of finishing 10th in the 2015 NCAA Cross Country Championships with a 6K time of 20:04.9 and finished third at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships, in 20:14.9.
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Sharon Lokedi took 11th in 21:09.5 at the Big 12 Championship and ran 20:08.3 and 4th at the Pre-National Invitational.
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Sharon Lokedi set another school record finishing second in the 5000-meter run in 16:00.6 at the Stanford Cardinal Classic.
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Sharon Lokedi lowered that record at the Stumptown Twilight meet with a 15:44.51.
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Sharon Lokedi's 4:29.88 won the 1500-meter run at the Rock Chalk Classic.
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Sharon Lokedi was named the Big 12 Women's Cross Country Runner of the Year for the second consecutive season.
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Sharon Lokedi became just the fourth female in Big 12 history to win multiple individual conference titles with her first place finish, running 20:00.5 at the Big 12 Championship.
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Sharon Lokedi was the runner-up in the NCAA Midwest Regional with a time of 20:12 and placed 44th at the NCAA Championships in 20:15.14.
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Sharon Lokedi's 8:59.69 became the school record holder in the 3,000-meter run at the Iowa State University Classic.
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Sharon Lokedi ran 32:09.20 to win, beating third-place Schweizer by 5.74 seconds, 18 seconds under the existing meet record, set by Sylvia Mosqueda thirty years earlier.
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In November 2022, Sharon Lokedi pulled off an upset when debuting in the marathon as she triumphed by seven seconds in the New York City Marathon with a time of 2:23:23.