Nelly Chepchirchir

Nelly Chepchirchir

Nelly Chepchirchir (behind the woman with the number "12") in 2023
Personal information
Nationality	Kenyan
Born	(2003-06-04) 4 June 2003 (age 21) Kapsabet, Kenya
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	800m, 1500m
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	800m: 1:58.23 (Grosseto, 2023) 1500m: 3:56.72 (Xiamen, 2023)

Nelly Chepchirchir (born 4 June 2003) is a Kenyan track and field athlete.[1]

Career

Chepchirchir competed at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colonbia and 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 fourth.[3]

Chepchirchir ran a new personal best time of 1:58.23 in the 800m in Grosseto, Italy in May 2023.[4] The next month she set a new personal time best in the 1500m, clocking 3:58.96 in June 2023 in Hengelo. She won the 1500m at the Kenyan national trials, running 3:59.77 in Nairobi in July 2023.[5] She then won the Gyulai Istvan Memorial, World Athletics Continental Tour Gold, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary in July 2023 running 4:00.18.[6]

Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships, 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 personal best again, to 3:56.72 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, reaching the semi finals.[10][11]

References

1. "Nelly Chepchirchir". Retrieved 19 August 2023.
2. "Chepchirchir through to 800m final at World U20 Athletics Championships". Michezoagrika.com. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
3. "Super Roisin Willis wins World U20 Championships 800m gold medal with 1:59.13CR". World-track.org.
4. "Chepchirchir sends tongues wagging with victory in Italy". nation.Africa. May 30, 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
5. Vaselyne, John (July 18, 2023). "Nelly Chepchirchir to highlight Memorial Gyulai in Hungary". Athletics.coke. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
6. Wafula, Abigael (19 July 2023). "Nelly Chepchirchir dazzles with 1500m meeting record in Hungary". pulsesports.co.ke.
7. "Women's 1500m Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 19 August 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
8. "RESULTS Women 1500 metres". Xiamen.diamondleague. 2 September 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
9. Collett, Jasmine (May 10, 2024). "Daryll Neita and Molly Caudery in winning form in Doha". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
10. "Women's 1500m Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
11. Okeyo, Dennis (June 16, 2024). "Faith leads chase for glory as Olympics squad is unveiled". tnx.africa. Retrieved 16 June 2024.