# Beatrice Chebet
**Beatrice Chebet** (born 2000) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who holds the women's world records for the 10,000 m, the 5,000 m, and the 5 km road race, and who in 2024 became the first Kenyan athlete to win an Olympic distance double, taking gold at 5,000 m and 10,000 m at the Paris Games.[1](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/beatrice-chebet-14749924) • [2](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-world-records-2025-season-goals) She is a two-time Olympic champion, world champion, and two-time Diamond League Final winner.[1](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/beatrice-chebet-14749924)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 2000, Kenya[1](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/beatrice-chebet-14749924) |
| 10,000 m world record | 28:54.14, Eugene, 25 May 2024; first woman under 29 minutes, seven seconds under the previous mark[3](https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/ratified-world-records-chebet-duplantis-mclaughlin-levrone-chepngetich-kawano) • [4](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-run-10000-metres-(female)) |
| 5,000 m world record | 13:58.06, Eugene, 5 July 2025; first woman under 14 minutes[5](https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cddm2j73n3eo) |
| Olympic titles | Paris 2024, 5,000 m and 10,000 m (30:43.25); a winner of two individual gold medals[6](https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/cx2yl3gy38po) • [3](https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/ratified-world-records-chebet-duplantis-mclaughlin-levrone-chepngetich-kawano) |
| World titles | Tokyo 2025, 10,000 m in 30:37.61[7](https://www.athleticskenya.or.ke/10878-2/) |
| Cross country | Three individual World Cross Country titles: U20 title in 2019 and senior titles in 2023 and 2024[8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner) • [16](https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-cross-country-championships/45th-world-athletics-cross-country-championsh-7190594/news/report/belgrade-24-senior-women-report) |
| World records in career | Four, and current holder of three (5,000 m, 10,000 m, 5 km road)[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/) |
## Early life and junior career
Chebet grew up in Kericho, Kenya's tea capital in the highlands west of the Rift Valley. She liked running as a child, but it was her grandmother Pauline Lang'at who provided the support and encouragement to stay on course.[8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner) She joined the Lemotit Athletics Training Camp because, in her own words, she knew she wanted to pursue a running career, encouraged also by her older sister Sandra Felis Chebet, a World U18 silver medallist.[2](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-world-records-2025-season-goals)
Her first major title came at age 18 years and 4 months at the 2018 World U20 Championships in Tampere, where she outkicked Ethiopia's Ejgayehu Taye 15:30.77 to 15:30.87, a margin of 0.10 seconds, for the 5,000 m gold.[2](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-world-records-2025-season-goals) • [10](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/2025-tfn-womens-athlete-of-the-year-beatrice-chebet/) The following year she won the World U20 cross country title, the first of her four World Cross Country titles.[8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner)
## Senior breakthrough, 2022–2023
**Commonwealth and world medals.** Chebet won the 5,000 m title at the 2022 [Commonwealth Games](https://www.edgepedia.org/commonwealth-games), then took 5,000 m silver at the World Championships in Eugene behind [Gudaf Tsegay](https://www.edgepedia.org/gudaf-tsegay). At the 2023 Budapest World Championships she took bronze in a race won by her Kenyan teammate [Faith Kipyegon](https://www.edgepedia.org/faith-kipyegon) ahead of Sifan Hassan.[10](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/2025-tfn-womens-athlete-of-the-year-beatrice-chebet/) • [5](https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cddm2j73n3eo)
**Cross country and road running.** In 2023 she won the senior World Cross Country title, and she took the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships 5 km title in Riga. On 31 December 2023 she set the women's 5 km road world record of 14:13 in Barcelona.[8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner) The 31 December 2023 Barcelona record was the women's 5 km road record, not the 5,000 m track record.[2](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-world-records-2025-season-goals) • [8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner)
## World records and personal bests
**The 10,000 m record.** At the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene on 25 May 2024, Chebet covered 25 laps in 28:54.14, taking seven seconds off the world record of 29:01.03 set by Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey at FBK Stadium in Hengelo on 8 June 2021. [World Athletics](https://www.edgepedia.org/world-athletics) ratified the record later that year.[3](https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/ratified-world-records-chebet-duplantis-mclaughlin-levrone-chepngetich-kawano) • [11](https://apnews.com/article/beatrice-chebet-kenya-world-record-7fd0d865f16689882834c8d36562eb2d) She became the first female athlete to break 29 minutes, with Gudaf Tsegay second in 29:05.92.[4](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-run-10000-metres-(female)) The race had been set up by Tsegay's camp as a world record attempt; Chebet surged ahead of Tsegay with about two laps to go, coming off her second straight world cross country title from March, and closed with a fast final lap.[10](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/2025-tfn-womens-athlete-of-the-year-beatrice-chebet/) • [12](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/pre-classic-women-chebet-crashes-2900-barrier-in-10k/) She said she had not planned the run as a record attempt.[2](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-world-records-2025-season-goals)
**The 5,000 m record.** In July 2025, at [Hayward Field](https://www.edgepedia.org/hayward-field) in Eugene, she became the first woman under 14 minutes for 5,000 m, running 13:58.06; the record was ratified as she arrived in Japan for the World Championships.[5](https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cddm2j73n3eo) She had closed in on Gudaf Tsegay's 14:00.21 mark a year earlier, running 14:05.92, the third-fastest time ever, at the 2024 Zurich Diamond League.[8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner)
**Personal bests.**
| Event | Time | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1500 m | 3:54.73 | Chorzów | 16 August 2025[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/) |
| 3000 m | 8:11.56 | Rabat | 25 May 2025[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/) |
| 5000 m | 13:58.06 | Eugene | 5 July 2025[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/) |
| 10,000 m | 28:54.14 | Eugene | 25 May 2024[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/) |
| Two miles | 9:14.71 | Eugene | 27 May 2022[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/) |
| 5 km road | 13:54 | Barcelona | 31 December 2024[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/) |
The 13:54 5 km in Barcelona on 31 December 2024 lowered her own 14:13 record from a year earlier.[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/) • [8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner)
## Olympic and championship record
At the Paris 2024 Olympics Chebet won the 5,000 m title, then completed the double days later by surging to victory on the final lap of the 10,000 m in 30:43.25.[6](https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/cx2yl3gy38po) She won two individual gold medals at those Games, and the first athlete from Kenya to win an Olympic distance double.[3](https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/ratified-world-records-chebet-duplantis-mclaughlin-levrone-chepngetich-kawano) • [2](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-world-records-2025-season-goals)
At the Tokyo 2025 World Championships she completed the same double at global championship level. In the 10,000 m final she outsprinted a chasing pack of three that included defending champion Gudaf Tsegay with 200 m to go, winning in 30:37.61; Athletics Kenya described her igniting her trademark finishing kick in the final 100 m for her maiden world title.[5](https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cddm2j73n3eo) • [7](https://www.athleticskenya.or.ke/10878-2/)
## Rivalries and comparisons
**Faith Kipyegon.** Gudaf Tsegay won the 5,000 m world title in Eugene 2022, with Chebet taking silver, and Kipyegon beat Chebet to the title in Budapest 2023, with Chebet taking bronze.[17](https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/iaaf-world-championships-usa-2022-7137279/results/women/5000-metres/final/result) The order reversed at the Paris Olympic final, where Chebet beat Kipyegon by just over a second.[10](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/2025-tfn-womens-athlete-of-the-year-beatrice-chebet/) • [5](https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cddm2j73n3eo) Chebet cites Kipyegon, along with [Hellen Obiri](https://www.edgepedia.org/hellen-obiri) and [Vivian Cheruiyot](https://www.edgepedia.org/vivian-cheruiyot), as mentors.[2](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-world-records-2025-season-goals)
**Gudaf Tsegay.** The Ethiopian has been Chebet's most persistent rival: she beat her for the 2022 world 5,000 m title, set the 5,000 m record of 14:00.21 that Chebet chased in Zurich and broke in 2025, and was the runner-up in the 28:54.14 record race and a member of the pack Chebet outkicked in the Tokyo 10,000 m final.[10](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/2025-tfn-womens-athlete-of-the-year-beatrice-chebet/) • [8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner) • [4](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-run-10000-metres-(female)) • [5](https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cddm2j73n3eo)
**Sifan Hassan** finished ahead of Chebet in the Budapest 5,000 m, where Kipyegon won and Hassan took the remaining podium place.[10](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/2025-tfn-womens-athlete-of-the-year-beatrice-chebet/)
## Training and running style
In 2024 Chebet began training in Iten with Peter Bii, a coach and former runner with whom she had developed a relationship and eventually married; he also assists in her coaching. Sessions take place at Kamariny stadium, and she structures her season around cross country.[10](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/2025-tfn-womens-athlete-of-the-year-beatrice-chebet/) • [2](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-world-records-2025-season-goals)
Her base sits in the running-science context of the Rift Valley. A 2024 narrative review identifies four elements proposed to explain East African distance running dominance: biomechanical and physiological attributes, training characteristics, psychological motivations, and African diet; Kenyan runners in the [Great Rift Valley](https://www.edgepedia.org/great-rift-valley) commonly follow a live-high, train-high approach at moderate altitudes of about 2,100 m.[13](https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/teb-2024-0018/html?lang=en) Earlier research has found no definitive physiological or genetic advantage, describing traditional social and cultural factors, including mindset, as important contributing factors.[14](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1756246/)
## By the numbers
- 28:54.14, 10,000 m world record, Eugene, 25 May 2024[3](https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/ratified-world-records-chebet-duplantis-mclaughlin-levrone-chepngetich-kawano)
- 13:58.06, 5,000 m world record, Eugene, 5 July 2025[5](https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cddm2j73n3eo)
- 13:54, 5 km road best, Barcelona, 31 December 2024 (after 14:13 on 31 December 2023)[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/) • [8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner)
- 30:43.25, Olympic 10,000 m winning time, Paris 2024[6](https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/cx2yl3gy38po)
- 30:37.61, Tokyo 2025 world 10,000 m title[7](https://www.athleticskenya.or.ke/10878-2/)
- 8:11.56 (3000 m, African and [Diamond League](https://www.edgepedia.org/diamond-league) record) and 3:54.73 (1500 m), both 2025[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/) • [15](https://www.diamondleague.com/how-chebet-and-wanyonyi-conquered-the-world/)
- 12 Diamond League meeting wins and two Diamond League Final titles[9](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/)
- Four world cross country titles[8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner)
## What has changed since 2023
Chebet entered 2023 as a former World U20 champion, holding the 2018 World U20 5,000 m title and a junior world cross country title.[2](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-world-records-2025-season-goals) • [8](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner) Since then she has added four world records, two of them in the 5 km road race, the Paris Olympic double, the Tokyo 2025 world double, and the 2025 Track & Field News Women's Athlete of the Year award.[5](https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cddm2j73n3eo) • [10](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/2025-tfn-womens-athlete-of-the-year-beatrice-chebet/) Her [2025 Diamond League](https://www.edgepedia.org/2025-diamond-league) season included a meeting record and world lead of 14:27.12 in Xiamen, the 8:11.56 African and Diamond League 3,000 m record in Rabat, and 14:03.69 in Rome, which made her the second-fastest woman in history over 5,000 m.[15](https://www.diamondleague.com/how-chebet-and-wanyonyi-conquered-the-world/)
## References
1. [Beatrice Chebet, Profile, World Athletics](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/beatrice-chebet-14749924)
2. [Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet on world records, targeting 'more gold' medals at 2025 world championships, and LA28, Olympics.com](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-world-records-2025-season-goals)
3. [Ratified: world records for Chebet, Duplantis, McLaughlin-Levrone, Chepngetich and Kawano, World Athletics](https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/ratified-world-records-chebet-duplantis-mclaughlin-levrone-chepngetich-kawano)
4. [Fastest run 10,000 metres (female), Guinness World Records](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-run-10000-metres-(female))
5. [World Athletics Championships: Beatrice Chebet focused on historic double in Tokyo, BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cddm2j73n3eo)
6. [Paris 2024: Beatrice Chebet completes Olympic double as Tunisia get first gold, BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/cx2yl3gy38po)
7. [Chebet strikes gold as Kenya opens World Champs with mixed fortunes in Tokyo, Athletics Kenya](https://www.athleticskenya.or.ke/10878-2/)
8. [Kenya's golden girl Beatrice Chebet on her race to becoming the best, Olympics.com](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/beatrice-chebet-interview-journey-best-distance-runner)
9. [Beatrice Chebet, Wanda Diamond League](https://www.diamondleague.com/athlete/14749924/)
10. [2025 T&FN Women's Athlete Of The Year — Beatrice Chebet, Track & Field News](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/2025-tfn-womens-athlete-of-the-year-beatrice-chebet/)
11. [Kenya's Beatrice Chebet sets world record in 10,000 meters, AP News](https://apnews.com/article/beatrice-chebet-kenya-world-record-7fd0d865f16689882834c8d36562eb2d)
12. [Pre Classic Women — Chebet Crashes 29:00 Barrier In 10K, Track & Field News](https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/pre-classic-women-chebet-crashes-2900-barrier-in-10k/)
13. [Why the dominance of East Africans in distance running? A narrative review, De Gruyter](https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/teb-2024-0018/html?lang=en)
14. [East African running dominance: what is behind it?, British Journal of Sports Medicine (PMC)](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1756246/)
15. [How Chebet and Wanyonyi conquered the world, Wanda Diamond League](https://www.diamondleague.com/how-chebet-and-wanyonyi-conquered-the-world/)
16. [Chebet retains senior women's title to lead Kenyan top five in Belgrade, News, Belgrade 24, World Athletics Cross Country Championships](https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-cross-country-championships/45th-world-athletics-cross-country-championsh-7190594/news/report/belgrade-24-senior-women-report)
17. [FINAL, 5000 Metres, Results, Oregon 22, World Athletics Championships](https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/iaaf-world-championships-usa-2022-7137279/results/women/5000-metres/final/result)
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