Chebet Win’s First Olympics Gold Medal for Kenya in the 10,000m Race

World record holder Beatrice Chebet has won yet another gold medal for Kenya in the 10,000m race at the 2024 Paris Olympics games on Friday night.

In a quest for “revenge” against Guday, who is seen in the Kenyan camp as the athlete responsible for the problems that the multiple Olympics and world champion Faith Kipyegon faced in the final of women’s 5000m race in Paris on Monday night, she ran a tactical race to win in 30 minutes and 43.25 seconds ahead of the silver medalist Nadia Batocletti of Italy who clocked a time of 30 minutes 43.35 seconds, and the Ethiopian-born Dutch runner Sifan Hassan who had a time of 30:44.12 to win the bronze medal in third place. Chebet had made it clear that she wanted to end the gold drought for Kenya in the 10,000m final, and she delivered brilliantly on her promise.

Sifan won a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games, which were held in Tokyo in 2021.
Chebet’s medal was Kenya’s first medal in the 24-lap race since the competition became part of the Olympics in 1988 at the South Korean Seoul edition.

Margaret Chelimo of Kenya finished fourth in the race (30:44.58), followed by Lilian Kasait (30:45.04) in fifth place.

Ethiopia’s Guday Tsegay finished in sixth place, followed by her compatriot Fotyen Tesfay in seventh place, clocking 30:45.21 and 30:46.93, respectively.
It was the second gold medal Chebet has won in the 2024 Olympic games, having won her first gold medal in the final championship of the women’s 5000m race on Monday night, which saw Kenyan Faith Kipyegon take the silver medal after withstanding a lot of shoving from Gudaf.

Beatrice Chebet set the world record of 25:54.14 in the 24-lap race on May 25, 2024, while competing in the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League Meeting in Oregon, USA.