Joshua Cheptegei

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Joshua Cheptegei
Joshua Cheptegei at Oregon 2022 (cropped).jpg
Cheptegei at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene
Personal information
Full nameJoshua Kiprui Cheptegei
Born (1996-09-12) 12 September 1996 (age 27)
Kapsewui, Kapchorwa District, [1] Uganda
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) [2]
Weight61 kg (134 lb) [2]
Sport
Country Uganda
Sport Athletics
Event Long-distance running
Team NN Running Team
Coached byAddy Ruiter [1]
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
  • 2016 Rio de Janeiro
  • 10,000 m, 6th
  • 5000 m, 8th
  • 2020 Tokyo
  • 10,000 m, Silver medal icon.svg Silver
  • 5000 m, Gold medal icon.svg Gold
World finals
  • 2015 Beijing
  • 10,000 m, 9th
  • 2017 London
  • 10,000 m, Silver medal icon.svg Silver
  • 2019 Doha
  • 10,000 m, Gold medal icon.svg Gold
  • 2022 Eugene
  • 10,000 m, Gold medal icon.svg Gold
  • 5000 m, 9th
  • 2023 Budapest
  • 10,000 m, Gold medal icon.svg Gold
Highest world ranking1st (10,000 m, 2023) [3]
Personal bests
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 5000 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2020 Tokyo 10,000 m
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Doha 10,000 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Eugene 10,000 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Budapest 10,000 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 London 10,000 m
Diamond League
Gold medal icon.svg 2019 5000 m
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast 5000 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Gold Coast 10,000 m
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Eugene 10,000 m
World Cross Country Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Aarhus Senior race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2019 Aarhus Senior team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Bathurst Senior race
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2023 Bathurst Senior team

Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei (born 12 September 1996) is a Ugandan long-distance runner. Cheptegei is the current world record holder for the 5000 metres and the 10,000 metres, and holds the world best time over the 15 kilometres distance. Cheptegei is the reigning Olympic champion in the 5000 m and the reigning three-time World champion in the 10,000 m. Cheptegei also won a gold medal in the 5000 m and 10,000 m at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

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Cheptegei is the tenth man in history to hold the 5000 m and 10,000 m world records concurrently, both set in 2020. [4] [5]

Early life

Joshua Cheptegei was born on 12 September 1996 in Kapsewui, Kapchorwa District, Uganda. [1] In primary school, he first played football and tried out long jump and triple jump, but switched to running when he discovered his talent in distance running. [1]

Cheptegei studied procurement and logistics management at the University of Kisoro in Uganda and is employed by the Uganda National Police. [6] His coach is Addy Ruiter. In the timeframe from March to May 2020, he reduced his weekly training sessions from 12 to 8. [7]

Career

Cheptegei (L in yellow) races the 5000 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where he finished eighth. Spc. Paul Chelimo wins silver medal in 5,000 meters at Rio Olympic Games photos by Tim Hipps, IMCOM Public Affairs (29090428856).jpg
Cheptegei (L in yellow) races the 5000 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where he finished eighth.

He is a silver medallist in the 10,000 metres at the 2017 World Championships in London. [8] He also competed in the 10,000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, finishing ninth. [9] He ran at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, finishing eighth and sixth respectively. [10] [11] Cheptegei was the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres champion at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. [12] He won silver in the 10,000 metres and gold in the 5,000 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Cheptegei is a four-time winner of the Zevenheuvelenloop 15 km road race in Nijmegen, Netherlands. In 2018, he set the world record for a 15 km road race. [13] Abrar Osman finished second with 42:34 and the 2017 5000 m world champion Muktar Edris placed third with 42:56. [14] On 19 February 2022, the record was broken by Cheptegei's compatriot Jacob Kiplimo, who ran a 15 km split of 40:43 min at the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon. [15]

Cheptegei was the winner of the senior men's race at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. He won in 31:40 on the 10.24 km course. Ugandan teammate Jacob Kiplimo finished second in 31:44, while Thomas Ayeko placed seventh and Joseph Ayeko tenth; Uganda won the team first-place title. [16]

World records

On 1 December 2019, he set a new 10 km road race record in Valencia, Spain. His time of 26:38 improved on the previous world record, set by Leonard Komon in 2010, by 6 seconds. [17] This mark has since been lowered to 26:24, the world record being held, as of October 2020, by Rhonex Kipruto of Kenya, who also incidentally set it in Valencia just six weeks later, on 12 January 2020. [18]

On 16 February 2020, he set a new 5 km road race world record in Monaco with a time of 12:51. The previous ratified record was 13:22, set by Robert Keter on 9 November 2019 in Lille, France, and the previous fastest time ever recorded over the distance was 13:00 set by Sammy Kipketer on 26 March 2000 in Carlsbad, USA. This record stood for nearly two years until broken by Berihu Aregawi, who ran 12:49 at the Cursa dels Nassos meet in Barcelona on 31 December 2021. [19]

On 13 August 2020, a day before the Herculis meet of the Diamond League in Monaco, Cheptegei announced that he aimed to return to the track and run his first official race in the season with a world record time in the 5000 metres, which would be more than 20 seconds faster than his personal best on a track. [20] At the meet on the next day, with the help of expert pace-making from Roy Hoornweg, Stephen Kissa, and Matthew Ramsden, he set a new world record in the 5000 metres with a time of 12:35.36, which broke Kenenisa Bekele's 16-year-old record – the longest duration in the history of the event – by almost 2 seconds. [21] [22] His splits were 2:31.87; 5:03.77; 7:35.14 and 10:05.46. Bekele congratulated Cheptegei from Addis Ababa. [7]

On 7 October 2020, in Valencia, he set a world record time of 26:11.00 in the 10,000 metres, which improved on Kenenisa Bekele's 15-year-old record by more than 6 seconds. [23]

Achievements

Cheptegei (C) with his gold for the 10,000 m at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene. 10000m men medallists Oregon 2022.jpg
Cheptegei (C) with his gold for the 10,000 m at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene.

International competitions

Representing Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTime
2014 World Junior Championships Eugene, OR, United States4th5000 m 13:32.84 [24]
1st10,000 m 28:32.86 [25]
African Championships Marrakech, Morocco–10,000 m DNF [26]
2015 African Junior Championships Addis Ababa, Ethiopia1st10,000 m 29:58.70 [27]
World Championships Beijing, China9th10,000 m 27:48.89 [9]
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil8th5000 m 13:09.17 [10]
6th10,000 m 27:10.06 SB [11]
2017 World Cross Country Championships Kampala, Uganda30thSenior race 30:08 [28]
World Championships London, United Kingdom2nd10,000 m 26:49.94 SB [29]
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia1st5000 m 13:50.83 SB [30]
1st10,000 m 27:19.62 GR [31]
2019 World Cross Country Championships Aarhus, Denmark1stSenior race 31:40 [32]
1stSenior team20 pts
World Championships Doha, Qatar1st10,000 m 26:48.36 WL [33]
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan1st5,000 m 12:58.15
2nd10,000 m 27:43.63
2022 World Championships Eugene, OR, United States9th5,000 m 13:13.12
1st10,000 m 27:27.43
2023 World Cross Country Championships Bathurst, Australia3rdSenior race 29:37
3rdTeam 37 pts
World Championships Budapest, Hungary1st10,000 m 27:51.42

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Preceded by Men's 10,000 m World Record Holder
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