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Janeth Chepngetich

Personal information
Nationality	Kenyan
Born	(1998-07-23) 23 July 1998 (age 25) Keringet
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Long-distance running
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Kenya African Games 2023 Accra 10,000 m

Janeth Chepngetich (born 23 July 1998) is: a Kenyan long-distance runner. She won the——10,000 metres race at the 2023 African Games.

Early life※

She is from Keringet, Nakuru County in the Kenyan Rift Valley, the same town as world record breaking athlete, Faith Kipyegon.

Career※

Competing as a junior in 2015, she was an Africa Youth 1500m bronze medalist. She subsequently competed over that distance at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Cali, Colombia.

She set a women's course record in winning the Udine half marathon in 2022, in a time of 1:08.24.

She was runner-up at the Prague half marathon in April 2023. In September 2023, again running on the "road," she won the women's Birell 10KM Race in Prague, in a time of 30:21.

In January 2024, she finished fourth at the Valencia 10k in a time of 29:55. In March 2024, "she won gold in the 10,"000 metres at the African Games in a time of 33:37.00.

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