Mercyline Chelangat (born 17 December 1997) is a Ugandan

long distance runner Long may refer to: Measurement * Long, characteristic of something of great duration * Long, characteristic of something of great length * Longitude (abbreviation: long.), a geographic coordinate * Longa (music), note value in early music mensur ...

. She competed in the women's 10,000 metres at the

2017 World Championships in Athletics Seventeen or 17 may refer to: * 17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japane ...

. In 2018, she competed in the senior women's race at the

2018 African Cross Country Championships The 2018 African Cross Country Championships was the fifth edition of the international cross country running competition for African athletes organised by the Confederation of African Athletics. It was held on 17 March in Chlef, Algeria – the fi ...

held in Chlef, Algeria. In June 2021, she qualified to represent Uganda at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

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* 1997 births Living people Ugandan female long-distance runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Uganda Place of birth missing (living people) Ugandan mountain runners Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Uganda Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Uganda 21st-century Ugandan women {{Uganda-athletics-bio-stub