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.
Eunice Jeptoo claimed her first major marathon victory, while Felix Kiptoo Kirwa just missed out on the same, at the Eindhoven Marathon held on 8 October.
Abraham Cheroben re-stablished his position among the world’s top road racers with his winning time of 58:40 at the Copenhagen Half Marathon.
Kipyegon Bett and Philip Milanov led the contingent of Personae-managed athletes competing at the IAAF Diamond League final in Brussels on 1. September.
Gesa Krause continued her late-season momentum at the ISTAF meeting in Berlin on 27. August, improving her own German record with the season’s fastest European time in the 3000m steeplechase.