Nelly Chepchirchir

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Nelly Chepchirchir
Personal information
NationalityKenyan
Born (2003-06-04) 4 June 2003 (age 20)
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]

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