Shadrack Kipchirchir

United States

Personal Bests

Half Marathon

1:00:58

3/2/2025

Marathon

2:11:05

10/13/2024

20 Kilometres Road

59:18

9/5/2022

8 Kilometres Road

22:42

7/16/2022

Half Marathon

1:01:16

3/20/2022

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Recent Mentions

Podcast

Episode 210: All in Stride-A Conversation with Author Johanna Garton

May 23, 2024

We loved speaking with author and sportswriter, Johanna Garton, whose most recent book, All in Stride: A Journey in Running, Courage and the Search for the American Dream,” was published on Tuesday, April 2. We met Johanna at the Boston Marathon and were thrilled to invite her to talk about her new book on our show. The book is about professional runner, Elvin Kibet, and her husband, Shadrack Kipchirchir and their journeys from a village in Kenya to collegiate athletes to world class American athletes, their love story, and their experiences as distance runners for the World Class Athlete Program (WCAP) for the U.S. Army. Fun fact—Shadrack paced Kipchoge to his sub 2 marathon in 2019. Through a series of interviews with Kibet, Kipchirchir, and their coaches, Garton weaves the story of the many obstacles, including racism, sexism, and disordered eating, that both athletes overcame to reach success their running careers, their challenging but happy childhoods in Kenya. Both decided, in spite of their challenges, that they wanted to serve in the U.S. Army because they were so grateful for the opportunities they were able to seize in the U.S. through running and wanted to serve their country. In her book, Garton also shares the story of WCAP athlete and 2020 U.S. Olympian Samantha Schultz. Schultz struggled with eating disorder recovery, which ultimately led to her retirement from competing in modern pentathlon. . Witnessing Schultz’s eating disorder struggles was a culture shock for Kibet, having never seen or heard of anyone experiencing this growing up in Kenya, and it influenced her decision to study public health and research how to better address such issues. Kibet and Kipchirchir are now parents to two-year old Mylo and recently competed in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. Find Johanna at @johannagartonbooks. Connect with us: Instagram: @runfartherandfaster Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RunFartherFaster Website: https://www.runfartherandfaster.com/

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Episode 109: Johanna Garton talks and details her new book, All In Stride

April 4, 2024

Esteemed author Johanna Garton talks and details her new book, All In Stride on this episode of Lactic Acid with Dominique Smith.

All In Stride shares the powerful story of Elvin Kibet and Shadrack Kipchirchir and their journey to becoming American citizens. This book is a powerful story that showcases love, passion and determination as the couple overcomes various trials and obstacles and displays graces and perseverance throughout their journey.

https://www.amazon.com/All-Stride-Journey-Running-American-ebook/dp/B0CJ6HZSDG

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538184608/All-in-Stride-A-Journey-in-Running-Courage-and-the-Search-for-the-American-Dream

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Shadrack Kipchirchir's Resilient Career Path To Success From Kenya To Winning U.S. National Titles

January 11, 2022

"I was planning to go to the marathon last year but this injury came up. I still have unfinished business on the track so after world champs, I’m going to try to debut at a fall marathon. Hopefully New York or something. That was my main thing. Once I switch my focus and I’m doing the marathon, I’m going to do some damage there."

Shadrack Kipchirchir is the newly-crowned 2022 USATF cross country champion. He is a 2016 Olympian and has not missed a U.S. world outdoor championship team since he switched allegiances from Kenya to America in 2014. After he kicked to the win on Saturday, I tried doing a little bit of research into his upbringing and his career path and honestly couldn’t find much. This is someone who has the 4th-fastest U.S. 10,000 meter time and has won six U.S. titles. So I reached out to him and invited him onto the show. This is his first-ever podcast interview and we went through his early days in Kenya growing up as one of nine kids, why he came to America to run for Western Kentucky and then Oklahoma State, why he enlisted in the Army before even thinking of the opportunity of being able to run for Team USA and how he’s found success. Last year, he suffered the first major injury of his career with a torn calf that knocked him out of making his second Olympic team. He cross-trained his butt off and roared back with the cross country victory in his first race in 294 days.

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163. Will A WR Go Down In Valencia? | The FloTrack Podcast

October 6, 2020

Gordon and Kevin preview the Valencia World Record Day and discuss Joshua Cheptegei’s chances at a 10,000m world record, Shadrack Kipchirchir’s American record attempt and Letesenbet Gidey going for the women’s 5000m world record. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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