Beatrice Chebet is a Kenyan long-distance runner and world record holder in the 5000 metres, the 10,000 metres and the road 5 kilometres. She was born in 2000, raced 5000 metre events while still at primary school and joined the Lemotit Athletics Club in 2016. She won the 5000 metres at the 2018 World U20 Championships, the first Kenyan woman to do so, and went on to win silver and bronze over that distance at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships. At the 2024 Summer Olympics she won gold in both the 5000 and the 10,000 metres, and she repeated that double at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. She is also a three-time World Cross Country champion and trains in Londiani in Kericho County.
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Beatrice Chebet (born 5 March 2000) is a Kenyan long-distance runner
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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
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is a Kenyan long-distance runner and world record holder in the 5000 meters, 10,000 meters, and road 5k
Competed In: 2024 Summer Olympics, Senior career, 2024
At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Chebet won an Olympic gold medal in the women's 5000 metres on 5 August
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