Esther Chebet (born 10 September 1997) is a Ugandan

middle-distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distance event. The 1 ...

. She finished fifth at the

2019 African Games The 12th African Games was held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. This was the first time that the African Games were hosted by Morocco following the country's readmission to the African Union in January 2017. Bidding process The 12th ...

(1500 m). At the 2019 World Cross Country Championships held in Aarhus, Denmark she finished fourteenth in the senior race and won a bronze medal in the team competition. She competed at the 2016 World U20 Championships (800 m), the 2017 World Championships (1500 m) and the 2019 World Championships (1500 m) without reaching the final. Her personal best times are 2:03.1 minutes in the 800 metres, achieved in September 2016 in

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; 4:02.90 minutes in the 1500 metres, achieved in May 2019 in

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; and 4:28.16 minutes in the

mile run The mile run (1,760 yards or exactly 1,609.344 metres) is a middle-distance foot race. The history of the mile run event began in England, where it was used as a distance for gambling races. It survived track and field's switch to ...

, achieved in July 2017 in

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. In June 2021, she qualified to represent Uganda at the

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* 1997 births Living people Ugandan female middle-distance runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Uganda Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games African Games competitors for Uganda Place of birth missing (living people) Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Uganda 20th-century Ugandan women 21st-century Ugandan women {{Uganda-athletics-bio-stub