In 2014, at the age of 41, Catherine Ndereba reached the peak of her career. What better time to retire than while at the top?
By then, she was a two-time world marathon champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist. She was a former world record holder who had won four Boston Marathons and two Chicago Marathons. Known as “Catherine the Great,” Ndereba made her marathon debut in Boston in 1998 with a sixth-place 2:28:27.