Rachael Zena Chebet (born 5 November 1996) is a Ugandan

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. She finished seventh at the 2016 African Championships (5000 m), seventh at the

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(10,000 m) and eighteenth at the 2019 World Championships (10,000 m). She also competed at the 2013 World Youth Championships (1500 m) without reaching the final,IAAF results
/ref> and did not finish her race at the 2016 African Championships (10,000 m). In cross-country running she competed in the junior races at the

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and 2015 World Cross Country Championships. At the 2017 World Cross Country Championships she finished seventeenth in the senior race and fourth in the team competition. At the 2019 World Cross Country Championships she finished fourth in the senior race and won a bronze medal in the team competition. In 2020, she competed in the women's half marathon at the

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held in Gdynia, Poland. Her personal best times are 15:49.03 minutes in the 5000 metres, achieved in July 2019 in

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; 32:41.93 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved at the 2019 World Championships in

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; 32:37 minutes in the 10 kilometres, achieved in June 2019 in Ölde; and 1:16:46 hours in the half marathon, achieved in December 2018 in

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1996 births Living people Ugandan female long-distance runners Ugandan female cross country runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Uganda Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games African Games competitors for Uganda 21st-century Ugandan women Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{Uganda-athletics-bio-stub