Nelly Chepchirchir
Kenyan athlete
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Nelly Chepchirchir (born 4 June 2003) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner. She competed for Kenya at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and 2024 Olympic Games.[1]
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Nelly Chepchirchir, in 2023 | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Kenyan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 June 2003 Kapsabet, Kenya | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Events | 800 m, 1500 m | ||||||||||||||
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Biography
Chepchirchir competed for Kenya at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colonbia, where she qualified for the final of the 800 metres.[2] In the final, she ran a new personal best time of 2:01.42 to finish in fourth place overall.[3]
Chepchirchir ran a new personal best time of 1:58.23 for the 800 metres in Grosseto, Italy in May 2023.[4] The following month, she set a new personal time best in the 1500 metres, running 3:58.96 in June 2023, in Hengelo, Netherlands. She won the 1500 metres title at the Kenyan national trials, running 3:59.77 in Nairobi, in July 2023.[5] She then won the Gyulai Istvan Memorial, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary in July 2023, running a time of 4:00.18 for the 1500 metres.[6]
Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, 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.[7] The following week, she lowered her 1500m personal best again, running 3:56.72 whilst competing at the Diamond League in Xiamen, China.[8]
In May 2024, she finished third in the 1500 metres at the 2024 Doha Diamond League.[9] She competed in the 1500 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, where she reached the semi-finals but did not progress to the final.[10][11]
In May 2025, she won the 1500 metres race at the 2025 Doha Diamond League race in a time of 4:05.00.[12] The following week, she also won the 1500 metres at the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat and also won the 2025 Meeting de Paris in 3:57.02 in June 2025, both also part of the 2025 Diamond League.[13][14] She won the 1000 metres at the 2025 Herculis event in Monaco, in 2:29.77, moving her to fourth place on the world all-time list.[15] She ran 3:56.99 to win the 1500m at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August winning on the line from Jessica Hull.[16]
She won at the Athletics Kenya World Championship Trials over 1500 metres.[17][18] In September 2025, she was a finalist over 1500 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, placing fourth in a personal best 3:55.25.[19]
Personal life
On 4 June 2026, Chepchirchir gave birth to a daughter, with her partner and fellow runner Emmanuel Wanyonyi.[20]