18-523: [REDACTED] Look up kisa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kisa or KISA may refer to: People [ edit ] Janet Kisa (born 1992), Kenyan runner Kisa Gotami , disciple of Buddha Rostislav Kiša (born 1978), Czech footballer Places [ edit ] Khisa , also known as Kisa, a village in Botswana Kisa, Hiroshima ,
36-641: A former town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, now merged with Miyoshi Kisa Station , a train station in Miyoshi Kisa, Iran , a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran Kisa, Sweden , a town in Östergötland County, Sweden Organizations [ edit ] Kisa BK , a Swedish football club KISA-LD , a low-power television station (channel 22, virtual 40) licensed to serve San Antonio, Texas, United States KISA (Cypriot organisation) ,
54-590: Is a common long-distance running event in track and field , approximately equivalent to 3 miles 188 yards or 16,404 feet 2 inches. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics , run over 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 laps of a standard 400 m track, or 25 laps on an indoor 200 m track. The same distance in road running is called a 5K run ; referring to
72-485: Is almost the same length as the dolichos race held at the Ancient Olympic Games , introduced in 720 BCE. World Athletics keeps official records for both outdoor and indoor 5000-metre track events. The 5000 metres is the (slightly longer) approximate metric equivalent of the 3-mile (4,828.0 m) run, an event common in countries which used the imperial measurement system . The 3-mile event featured in
90-404: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Janet Kisa Janet Kisa (born 5 December 1992) is a Kenyan professional middle- and long-distance runner who competes in track , cross country , and road running events. Kisa won the silver medal in the 5000 metres at the 2014 Commonwealth Games . She was a team gold medallist at
108-458: The 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships she came fifth in the junior race , helping Kenya to the team silver medals with the individual champion Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon . Her next international appearance brought her the first individual medal of her career: at the 2011 African Junior Athletics Championships she was the silver medallist, forming a Kenyan 1–2 in the 5000 metres with teammate Caroline Chepkoech . Kisa joined up with
126-545: The 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and runner-up at the 2014 African Cross Country Championships . Born near Mount Elgon in Kenya, she began competing as a teenager and placed second at the 2009 Shoe4Africa 5km race behind the more experienced Helena Kirop . She established herself at national level in 2011 by winning the junior women's division of the Kenyan Cross Country Championships . At
144-608: The 2014 Commonwealth Games . In the 5000 m Commonwealth final Kisa was the runner-up behind Mercy Cherono , winning the first senior track medal of her career. From the beginning of 2016 she is coached by the Italian Renato Canova. In the first competitions of the new season, she improved her PB of 3000m (8:32.0 in Doha on 6 May) and of 5000m (14:38.70 in Rabat on 22 May). 5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run
162-642: The Commonwealth Games through 1966, and was a championship in the United States in non-Olympic years from 1953 to 1973. It required 12 laps around a 1 ⁄ 4 -mile (402 m; 440 yd; 1,320 ft) track. Two men have won the Olympic 5000 metres on two occasions, both times back-to-back. Lasse Virén of Finland was the first to achieve the feat, winning the title in 1972 in Munich , before retaining
180-701: The Cat ", an Icelandic fairy tale Kisa tribe (Luhya) , an indigenous tribe of Kenya Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kisa . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kisa&oldid=1214296549 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
198-645: The Kenyan Police team in 2012 and placed fifth in their cross country championships and second in their 5000 m race that year. She made her IAAF Diamond League debut in Doha , running a personal best of 8:51.63 minutes for seventh over the 3000 metres . A 5000 m best of 14:57.68 minutes followed at the IAAF Rabat Meeting , where she was runner-up. She tried to make the Kenyan Olympic team but came fifth at
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#1732863181210216-597: The Kenyan women swept the medals with Alice Nawowuna in third. She made her debut over the half marathon distance in Nice in April and won in a time of 71:01 minutes by a margin of over 2 minutes. On the track she placed fifth at the Golden Gala in a 5000 m personal best of 14:52.59 minutes then was runner-up at the national championships. This brought her selection for Kenya at
234-474: The Movement for Equality, Support, Anti-Racism (Greek: Κίνηση για Ισότητα, Στήριξη, Αντιρατσισμό, abbreviated to ΚΙΣΑ), a Cypriot non-governmental organization established in 1998 KISA Phone , an Australian telecommunications services provider founded in 2013 The Korea Internet & Security Agency Other uses [ edit ] Kisa Sohma , a character in the manga and anime Fruits Basket " Kisa
252-565: The Olympic 5000 metres title twice, Ethiopian Meseret Defar winning in Athens in 2004 , taking silver behind compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba in 2008, before regaining the title in London in 2012 . Defar and Dibaba are the only athletes with three Olympic medals at the distance, with both reaching the podium in 2004, 2008 and 2012. In the World Championships, Great Britain's Mo Farah stands alone,
270-406: The distance in metres rather than kilometres serves to disambiguate the two events. The 5000 m has been present on the Olympic programme since 1912 for men and since 1996 for women. Prior to 1996, women had competed in an Olympic 3000 metres race since 1984. The 5000 m has been held at each of the World Championships in Athletics in men's competition and since 1995 in women's. The event
288-477: The most successful and most decorated athlete in the event with three gold medals (2011, 2013 and 2015) and four medals in total (including silver in 2017) between 2011 and 2017. Kenya's Ismael Kirui was the first athlete to win the title twice in 1993 and 1995, and Ethiopia's Muktar Edris the third between 2017 and 2019. Romania's Gabriela Szabo won the title twice between 1995 and 1997. Since then four African runners - two Kenyan, two Ethiopian - have repeated
306-560: The title in 1976 in Montreal . Mo Farah of Great Britain matched the achievement, winning the title in 2012 in London , and retaining it four years later in Rio de Janeiro . Both men achieved 5000/10,000 m doubles on each occasion. Finnish legend Paavo Nurmi is the only male runner to have won three Olympic medals at the distance, a gold and two silvers between 1920 and 1928. Only one woman has won
324-545: The trials. In 2013, she placed third at the Police Cross Country and gained her first senior selection with the same placing at the Kenyan Championships. Kisa's sixth-place finish in the senior race at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships brought her a share in the team gold medals with Kenya. The 2014 African Cross Country Championships saw Kisa place second to Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon and
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