Biography
With seven global gold medals todate in an international career spanning a decade, Joshua Cheptegei is Uganda’s most decorated distance runner in history.
After his debut Olympics at Rio 2016, Cheptegei returned to the Olympic track as the man to beat.
He had completed the distance double at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, added a 10,000m silver medal from London 2017 world championships, won a World Cross Country title, and earned his first world title in Doha in 2019.
Even more impressive was breaking four world records in barely a year. In December 2019, he set a new 10km road race in Valencia of 26.38 seconds and in February the following year, he broke the 5km road race in Monaco with a time of 12.51.
On August 2020, he lowered Kenenisa Bekele's 16-year-old world record in the 5000m with his time of 12:35.36 and wrapped up his track season in October that year with the 10,000m world record. His winning time of 26:11.00 bettered another of Bekele’s long-standing record.
He went to Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the man to beat on the track distance races in the absence of the defending champion Mo Farah.
"Everything starts in the mind. If you believe you can do this, then it’s possible.”
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