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| Born | 24 December 2005 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Long-distance running, Cross country running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 3000m: 8:56.04 (Fukagawa, 2024) 5000m: 15:01.80 (Nobeoka, 2024) 10,000m: 31:45.22 (Palo Alto, 2025) Road 5km: 15:06 (Lille, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
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Diana Cherotich (born 24 December 2005) is a Kenyan long-distance and cross country runner. [1]
Cherotich is from Bungoma County, Kenya. [2] She competed at the 2024 World Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, where she finished fifth for Kenya in the U20 race, winning silver in the team event. [3] [4] This came after she missed the chance to compete the previous year at the Championships in Bathurst, Australia, due to VISA issues. [5]
Cherotich joined the University of Oregon in the United States in March 2025. [6] She made her race debut for the Oregon Ducks at the Stanford Invitational on 4 April 2025, where she set a new school record for the 10,000 metres, running 31:45.22 seconds for the win. The time was also the ninth-fastest in collegiate history, and was more than 21 seconds faster than the previous Oregon program record from 2013. [7] She then won the women’s 10,000-metres final at the Big Ten Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field on 16 May, running a meeting record time of 32:00.48. [8]
She won the individual and team title with Oregon at the Big Ten Conference cross country championships on 31 October 2025. [9] [10] She had a second place finish at the NCAA West Regional cross country championships on 14 November 2025 at in Sacramento, California, helping the Oregon Ducks to a second-place finish. [11]
