Abel Chelangat

Abel Chelangat is a Ugandan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon. Born in July 1993, he came to wider notice in 2024 when representatives of a sportswear company scouted him and invited him to run the Porto Marathon in Portugal, which he won. In 2025 he won the Rabat Marathon in Morocco and was then chosen to represent Uganda at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, where he finished fifth in the marathon final. In March 2026 he won the Barcelona Marathon, its forty-seventh edition, in a time of 2 hours 4 minutes 59 seconds. His rapid rise from road races in Europe and North Africa to a major championship final makes him one of the more prominent Ugandan marathoners of the mid 2020s.