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| Nationality | Kenyan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 February 2000 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 1500 metres – 5000 metres | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 1500m: 3:41.3 (Nairobi, 2021) 3000m: 7:31.26 (Stockholm, 2022) 5000m: 13:00.68 (Heusden, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
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Cornelius Kemboi (born 29 February 2000) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. [1]
Kemboi attended St Patrick's High School in Iten, in the west of Kenya, 350 kilometres north-west of Nairobi. His idol growing up was David Rudisha. He has two older brothers who both received athletics scholarships in the United States. [2]
Competing at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in Birmingham, Kemboi finished eleventh in the final of the 5000m. [3] [4]
Kemboi ran a new personal best 5000m time of 13:00.68 at the Night of Athletics meeting in Heusden, Belgium in July 2023. [5] He finished third in the 5000m at the Kenyan World Championship trials for the, held in Nairobi. [6] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest but diss not qualify for the 5000m final. [7]
He was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga, and finished fifth in the men's 5km race on 1 October 2023. [8] [9]
In January 2024, he won the Discovery Cross Country race in Eldoret in a time of 29:42. [10] He won a bronze medal in the 5000m race at the 2023 African Games in Accra in March 2024. [11]
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