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Laban Chege (born 10 September 1969) is a Kenyan athlete who specialises in middle and
long distance running Long-distance running, or endurance running, is a form of continuous running over distances of at least . Physiologically, it is largely aerobic in nature and requires stamina as well as mental strength. Within endurance running comes two d ...
. He finished tenth at the 1997 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, and a seventh-place finish at the 1999 edition helped him win a bronze medal with Kenya in the team competition. He won the
Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale The Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale is an annual half marathon which follows a course from Marseille to Cassis in France during the last weekend in October. It has the silver label of the IAAF Road Race Label Events and is thus among the ...
race on consecutive occasions in 1995 and 1996. He won the City to Surf race in
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twice in 1999 and 2000.Sporting Digest: Athletics
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'' (1999-08-16). Retrieved on 2009-10-22. He has also competed in
cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open coun ...
, having won the 1998
Belfast International Cross Country The Antrim International Cross Country, formerly the Belfast International Cross Country, is an annual cross country running meeting which takes place every January in Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is one of the IAAF's cross country permit meet ...
meeting.


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* 1969 births Living people Kenyan male long-distance runners 20th-century Kenyan people 21st-century Kenyan people {{Kenya-athletics-bio-stub