Winny Chebet

Winny Chebet
Winny Chebet in Oslo 2010
nation	Kenya
birthday	20th December 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Kericho , Kenya
size	152 cm
Weight	48 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance run
Trainer	Japhet Kemei
Medal table
Africa Games 0 × 0 × 1 × African Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 African Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U18 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Africa Games bronze Brazzaville 2015 4 × 400 m  African Championships gold Asaba 2018 1500 m Junior African Championships gold Bambous 2009 4 × 400 m silver Bambous 2009 800 m  Junior World Championships silver Beijing 2006 800 m  Youth World Championships silver Marrakech 2005 800 m
last change: June 10, 2019

Winny Chebet (born December 20, 1990 in Kericho ) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner .

Athletic career

Winny Chebet gained her first international experience at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Marrakech , where she won the silver medal in the 800-meter run in 2: 08.15 minutes . At the Junior World Championships in Beijing the following year, she also won the silver medal in 2: 04.59 minutes, this time behind Olga Cristea from Moldova . In 2007 she again took part in the World Youth Championships in Ostrava , but was disqualified there in the final. In 2008 she was fifth at the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz in 2: 04.13 min and the following year she won the Junior African Championships in Bambous in 3: 48.99 min with the Kenyan 4 x 400 meter relay while she was in 2: 01.36 min won the silver medal over 800 meters behind the South African Caster Semenya . In 2010 she finished fifth at the African Championships in Nairobi in 2: 03.02 min and was seventh at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in 2: 11.58 min.

Two years later she qualified for the first time for the World Championships in Moscow , where she was eliminated with 2: 01.04 min in the semifinals. In 2015 she won the bronze medal with the relay at the Africa Games in Brazzaville in 3: 35.91 minutes and finished fifth in the 800 meter competition in 2: 02.67 minutes. The following year she qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she reached the semi- finals, in which she was eliminated with 2:01.90 minutes. In 2017 she took part in the 1500 meter run at the World Championships in London , where she was eliminated in the semifinals with 4: 06.29 min . At the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham she was eliminated over 800 meters with 2: 18.31 min in the first round and was fifth over 1500 meters in 4: 12.08 min. At the beginning of April she again took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast and was eliminated there with 4: 20.67 minutes in the first round. Then she won the African Championships in Asaba in 4: 14.02 min.

In 2009 and 2013 Chebet was Kenyan champion in the 800-meter run and in 2018 and 2019 in the 1500-meter run.

Personal bests

• 800 meters: 1: 58.13 min, August 29, 2017 in Zagreb
  • 800 meters (hall): 2: 02.67 min, February 12, 2013 in Val-de-Reuil
• 1000 meters: 2: 35.73 min, September 6, 2013 in Brussels
  • 1000 meters (hall): 2: 40.37 min, February 3, 2013 in Moscow
• 1500 meters: 3: 59.16 min, June 8, 2017 in Rome
  • 1500 meters (hall): 4: 05.81 min, March 2, 2018 in Birmingham
• Mile: 4: 19.55 min, July 9, 2017 in London
  • Mile (hall): 4: 34.06 min, February 16, 2019 in Birmingham

Web links

Commons : Winny Chebet  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Winny Chebet in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Winny Chebet in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Semenya clocks 49.96, Amos defeats Korir at African Championships in Asaba ( English ) IAAF. August 3, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.