Nelly Chepchirchir (born 4 June 2003) is a Kenyan

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete.

Career

Chepchirchir competed at the

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, Colonbia and qualified for the final of the

800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the ...

. In the final she ran a new personal best time of 2:01.42 to finish fourth. Chepchirchir ran a new personal best time of 1:58.23 in the 800m in Grosseto, Italy in May 2023. The next month she set a new personal time best in the

1500m The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

, clocking 3:58.96 in June 2023 in

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. She won the 1500m at the Kenyan national trials, running 3:59.77 in

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in July 2023. She then won the Gyulai Istvan Memorial, World Athletics Continental Tour Gold, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary in July 2023 running 4:00.18. Selected for the

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, she won her heat and her semi-final in the 1500m to qualify for the final. In the final she ran a 3:57.90 personal best to finish fifth. The following week, she lowered her personal best again, to 3:56.72 competing at the

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, China. In May 2024, she finished third in the 1500 metres at the 2024 Doha Diamond League. In June 2024, she was named in the Kenyan team for the

2024 Paris Olympics ) , nations = TBA , athletes = 10,500 ''(quota limit)'' , events = 329 in 32 sports (48 disciplines) , opening = 26 July 2024 , closing = 11 August 2024 , opened_by = , stadium = Stade de France Jardins du Trocadéro and River Seine , summe ...

References

2003 births Living people Kenyan female long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Kenya Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics {{Kenya-athletics-bio-stub