Gesa Krause continued her reign as 3000m SC steeplechase champion on the final day of competition at the 2018 European Athletics Championships, held 6. through 12. August in Berlin Olympic Stadium.
Cornelius Tuwei during a five-day span of competitions in Liege, Monaco and Heusden, established new personal bests in both the 800m and 1500m, with the former moving him to 10th place on the ’18 world 800m chart.
Ferguson Rotich won the 1000m at the Bauhaus Galan in Stockholm on 10. June with a ’18 world-leading time of 2:14.88.
Bornes Kitur on 6. May won the Volkswagen Prague Marathon in a career-best time of 2:24:19.
Victories by Kenneth Kipkemoi and Visilline Jepkesho at the Rotterdam Marathon on 8 April established the first such double-victory by Personae-managed athletes at an IAAF Gold Label race event.
Abraham Cheroben’s silver medal performance at the 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, held in Valencia, Spain, was his first podium finish at a global championships.
Meskerem Assefa won the Nagoya Marathon on 11. March, the same day James Rungaru took the City-Pier-City Half Marathon title in Den Haag.
Track & Field News magazine (Palo Alto, California) on 22. December published its annual world rankings for 2017. Ruth Jebet earned the No. 2 ranking in the 3000m Steeplechase, leading a total of nine Personae-managed athletes receiving world top-10 honors in their respective events.
Abraham Cheroben won the Valencia Half Marathon on 22. October, while Marius Kimutai also reached the top podium position in the Ljubljana Marathon on 29. October.
