Who is Esther Chebet? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, relationship with Jurrie van der Velden, and career, the 2019 World Cross Country Championships, 2020 Summer Games, 2016 World U20 Championships, the early life and education of the Ugandan middle-distance runner.
Esther Chebet is a middle-distance runner from Uganda.
At the All Africa Games in Morocco, she finished fifth in the 1500-meter final before stopping at the Heats in the 2019 World Championships in Doha.
Early life and Education
Esther Chebet was born on September 10, 1997.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Esther Chebet was placed in the 6th position during the 800 Metres race with a finishing time of 2:22.70 in the Addis Ababa African Junior Championships, Ethiopia which happened on 06th March 2015.
She competed in the 800 m race at the 2016 World U20 Championships, the 1500 m race at the 2017 World Championships, and the final in the 1500 m race at the 2019 World Championships.
At the Bydgoszcz IAAF World U20 Championships in July 2016, she finished the race in the 3rd and 4th positions with finishing times of 2:11.18 and 2:05.47 respectively.
She earned her spot on the Ugandan Olympic team for the 2020 Summer Games in June 2021.
Surprisingly, Esther got a ticket for the longer 5000-meter race at Atletiekbaan Brakkenstein in the Netherlands’ Nijmegen Global Athletics Meet in May 2021.
On 20th July 2019, Esther Chebet had earlier participated in the 5000 m race and finished in 15:18.05 at Heusden-Zolder in Belgium.
On 29th May 2021, she finished behind Australian Matt Doyle in second place over the 12-and-a-half laps in a personal best time of 15:04.89 seconds.
According to her manager Jurrie van der Velden, she virtually ran at Olympic Games qualification time the entire race, making her the girl who won always in the lead like a great pacer.
After Stella Chesang and the holder of the national record, Sarah Chelangat, Chebet is the third Ugandan woman to qualify for the Tokyo Games over the 5000 m distance.
However, Uganda’s hopes of winning the 2022 Women’s Olympics 5000m race vanished after all three athletes failed to finish in the top five or with the best time during the first and second heats.
Esther Chebet made a fast start in heat two before losing steam and finishing in 12th place in 15:11:47. Segay Gudaf of Ethiopia won heat 2 with a time of 14:55:54. Hellen Obiri of Kenya came in second in a time of 14:55:57.
Chebet also participated in the 5000 m on 09th June 2022 at the X-bionic sphere, Šamorín (SVK) finishing at 15:02.15 her personal best time so far.
Achievements and Awards
She placed fourteenth in the senior event at the 2019 World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, and took home a bronze medal in the team competition.
Chebet’s personal best times are:
- 2:03.28 in the 800 Metres race in Kampala, Uganda which she ran on 07th July 2016.
- 2:03.1 in the 800 Metres race in Eldoret Kenya which she ran on 03rd September 2016.
- 4:02.90 in the 1500 Metres race at the Olympic Stadium, Nanjing China on 21st May 2019.
- 4:28.16 in the mile run at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne which she ran on 06th July 2017.
- 9:04.96 in the 3000 Metres race at Mandela National Stadium, Kampala Uganda on 22nd May 2021.
- 15:02.15 in the 5000 Metres race at the x-bionic sphere, Šamorín on 09th June 2022 which was also the season’s best.
- 31:53 in the 10 Kilometres race at Madrid on 31st December 2018.
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