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Beatrice Chebet
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Key facts
- Full name
- Beatrice Chebet
- Born
- ( 2000-03-05 ) 5 March 2000 (age 26) , Kericho , Kenya
- Height
- 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
- Country
- Kenya
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event
- Long-distance running
- Highest world ranking
- No. 1 (overall, 2024) No. 1 (5000 m, 2024) No. 1 (10,000 m, 2024) No. 1 (cross country, 2024)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Beatrice
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kenya
- Place of birth
- Kericho
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Kenya
- Image
- Beatrice Chebet 5000m women final 2 Oregon 2022 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 2000-03-05
- Commons category
- Beatrice Chebet
- sports discipline competed in
- 10K run
- personal best
- 853
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Encyclopedic overview
Beatrice Chebet (born 5 March 2000) is a Kenyan long-distance runner and world record holder in the 5000 meters, 10,000 meters, and road 5k. She won gold medals in both the 5000 and 10,000 m at the 2024 Summer Olympics and repeated the double at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. In the 5000 m, Chebet won the silver medal at the 2022 World Championships, and the bronze in 2023. Chebet is a three-time World Cross Country champion, having won the junior race in 2019 and the senior race in 2023 and 2024. Additionally, Chebet was the 5000 m champion at the 2018 World U20 Championships, the 2022 Commonwealth Games, and the 2022 African Championships.
Chebet trains in Londiani, Kericho County.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beatrice Chebet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.