Shem Kororia

{{short description|Kenyan long-distance runner}}

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{{Medal|Competition|World Championships}}

{{Medal|Bronze|1995 Gothenburg|5000 m}}

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Shem Kororia (born 25 September 1972) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 metres and half marathon. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Kororia was the third man ever to run the half marathon within an hour, when he won the world half marathon title in October 1997 in Košice, Slovakia, clocking 59:56 minutes.

He won 5000 metres gold twice at the Military World Games: in 1995 and 1999.gbrathletics: [http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/mwg.htm Military World Games] He also won the Parelloop 10K in race in the Netherlands in 1997 and had back-to-back wins at the BOclassic in 1994–95.Arrs.net: [https://www.arrs.run/HP_Pll10.htm List of Parelloop winners][http://www.boclassic.it/en/cms/31.htm Past Winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103170224/http://www.boclassic.it/en/cms/31.htm |date=2011-01-03 }}. BOclassic. Retrieved on 2010-01-03.

He also competed in cross country running events. He was twice a team gold medallist with Kenya at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships (1994 and 1997). On the major cross country meet circuit he had two wins at the Cross Internacional de la Constitución (1994 and 1995) and was the 1996 winner of both the Campaccio and the Cross Internacional de Venta de Baños races.Civai, Franco & Lorange, Francois (2011-01-10). [https://www.arrs.run/HP_CamXC.htm Campaccio Classica del Cross]. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2011-01-12.[http://www.pmdeportesventadebanos.com/crossXXVI/historia.pdf Podium Cross Internacional] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715094805/http://www.pmdeportesventadebanos.com/crossXXVI/historia.pdf |date=2011-07-15 }} (List of medallists). Venta de Baños. Retrieved on 2009-12-27.[http://www.cap-alcobendas.es/drupal/CuadroVencedores Cuadro de vencedores del Cross Internacional de la Constitución] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130213053157/http://www.cap-alcobendas.es/drupal/CuadroVencedores |date=2013-02-13 }} {{in lang|es}}. CAP-Alcobendas. Retrieved on 2010-12-10.

He is from Kaptama in Mount Elgon District, the same village as Edith Masai.The Standard, October 14, 2008: Komon the mountain legion