Janet Cherobon-Bawcom, 33, Rome, GA

Janet Cherobon-Bawcom, 33
  • Pending USA 25K record, 1:24:36, in victory at 2012 USA 25K Championships, besting Joan Benoit Samuelson's 1:24:43
  • 2012 RRCA Runner of the Year, Open Women
  • 2012 USA 15K Champion, 49:41
  • 2011 USA Women's 10K champion, 32:47
  • 2011 BAA Half-Marathon champion (one day before USA Women's 10K win), 1:11:58
  • 2011 USA 20K champion, 1:08:31 (her first USA title)
  • 2011 Women's USA Running Circuit Grand Prix winner
  • Born in Kenya, became a naturalized U.S. citizen in November 2010
  • Fifth place, 2012 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, 2:29:45, PR
  • Marathon best of 2:37:27 set in 2008; half-marathon PR of 1:10:59
  • Competed at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas; three time D-II national champion, eight time All-American, 2005 graduate.
  • Works as a cardiac nurse.

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