CHEPTEGEI Joshua

Date of Birth: 12 Sep 1996

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Olympic Scholarship

Place of birth: KAPCHORWA

Birth Country:

Uganda

Place of residence : KAPCHORWA

Residence Country:

Uganda

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Men's 5000m	1
	Men's 10,000m	2

Records

Record	Event	Mark	Date	Location
WR	Men's 5000m	12:35.36	14 August, 2020	Monaco (MON)
WR	Men's 10,000m	26:11.00	7 October, 2020	Valencia (ESP)

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 10,000m Final	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 5000m Round 1 - Heat 2	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 5000m Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	5000m	10,000m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	8th (13:09.17)	6th (27:10.06)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	10,000m
2019	Doha, QAT	1st (26:48.36)
2017	London, GBR	2nd (26:49.94)
2015	Beijing, CHN	9th (27:48.89)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	3000m	5000m
2021	-	1 x 6th
2020	-	1 x 1st
2019	1 x 2nd	1 x 1st, 1 x 4th, 1 x 7th
2017	1 x 4th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2020	5000m	Monaco, MON	12:35.36
1	2019	5000m	Zurich, SUI	12:57.41
2	2019	3000m	Oslo, NOR	7:33.26
3	2017	5000m	Lausanne, SUI	12:59.83
4	2019	5000m	Lausanne, SUI	13:03.59
4	2017	3000m	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	7:34.96
4	2017	5000m	Eugene, OR, USA	13:02.84
6	2021	5000m	Florence, ITA	12:54.69
7	2019	5000m	Shanghai, CHN	13:06.68

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2021	3000m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Ostrava, CZE	7:33.24

World Cross Country Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Individual Cross Country Long Distance	2019	Aarhus, DEN	31:40
1	Team Cross Country Long Distance	2019	Aarhus, DEN	20
3	Team Cross Country Long Distance	2017	Kampala, UGA	72
30	Individual Cross Country Long Distance	2017	Kampala, UGA	30:08

World Half Marathon Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
3	Half Marathon Team	2020	Gdynia, POL	2:58.39
4	Half Marathon	2020	Gdynia, POL	59:21

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Reading. (olympicchannel.com, 15 Aug 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Police Officer

Wife Carol, son Jethan [2017], daughter Jemima [2019]

Languages spoken:

NN Running Team [Netherlands]

Addy Ruiter [personal], NED, from 2015

He was left with lower back pain after a driver ran into him in December 2018. (iaaf.org, 01 Apr 2019)

He sustained a right knee injury in 2017 after walking into a door at his home. In January 2018 he twisted his left foot during a training session which put additional pressure on his right knee. He resumed training with the injuries and competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, where he won gold medals in the 5000m and 10,000m events. His right knee was then inflamed and he was off the track for two months. (iaaf.org, 01 Apr 2019; worldathletics.org, 24 Nov 2018)

He began running seriously in 2004. (olympicchannel.com, 15 Aug 2020)

He initially liked football but then developed passion for endurance racing after his school coach Benjamin Njia encouraged him to take up the sport. (olympicchannel.com, 15 Aug 2020; runnersworld.com, 03 Dec 2019)

To win a gold medal in the 5000m and the 10,000m at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (bbc.co.uk, 29 Dec 2020)

Ethiopian athlete Kenenisa Bekele. (gc2018.com, 01 Jan 2018)

His wife Carol. (monitor.co.ug, 07 Nov 2020)

General Interest

General
REDEMPTION
He was disappointed with finishing 30th in front of his family at the 2017 World Cross Country Championships in Kampala, Uganda. "My wife was there, my family, my manager, and they were encouraging me, saying 'you can make it'. It took me some weeks to get over. When I met people they felt sorry for me, but when they asked me I would feel bad because they made me remember what happened. I had to just stay at home, not go around because I didn't want to meet people." Five months later he won a silver medal in the 10,000m at the 2017 World Championships in London, England. He then asked the assembled media in London, "Do you remember what happened in Kampala?" (olympicchannel.com, 15 Aug 2020; worldathletics.org, 05 Aug 2017)

SPORT OVER STUDY
He studied literature for two years at Bugema University in Kampala, Uganda, before opting out to pursue his sporting career. (Bugema University Facebook page, 12 Oct 2020; olympicchannel.com, 15 Aug 2020)

CHRISTMAS RUN
In 2016 he started Cheptegei Christmas Run in Uganda which has become an annual event for children under 16. (Twitter profile, 25 Dec 2020; observer.ug, 06 Oct 2020; monitor.co.ug, 30 Dec 2018)

Milestones

He became the first 10,000m world champion for Uganda when he won the gold medal in the event at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. (independent.co.ug, 06 Oct 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 03 Feb 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
WR:: World Record

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