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| Nationality | Kenyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 July 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 3000m Steeplechase | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 5000m: 16:20.86 (Nairobi, 2022) 3000m Steeplechase: 9:28.88 (Oregon, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pamela Kosgei (born 5 July 2004) is a Kenyan track and field and cross-country athlete. In 2023, she became the Africa Under-20 champion, and the Kenyan senior national champion, at the 3000m Steeplechase. [1]
Kosgei is the sister of Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Brigid Kosgei. [2] She has described her sister as her inspiration. [3]
In 2022 she became the Kenyan U18 champion at the 3000m steeplechase. She represented her country at the World Under 20 Athletics Championships held in Cali, Colombia and finished in fifth place in the 3000m steeplechase race. [4] She won the 5000m race at the East Africa School Games in Arusha, Tanzania on September 20, 2022. She won her first ever European race at the Cardiff Cross Challenge, held in Cardiff, Wales on 15 October 2022. [5]
On 18 February 2023 Kosgei won bronze at the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in the U20 women's race, finishing behind Ethiopians Medina Eisa and Senayet Getachew. [6] [7] [8]
In 2023, she became the Africa Under-20 3000m Steeplechase champion. On 24 June 2023, she also won the Athletics Kenya National Championships at that distance. [9]
In 2024, she ran a new personal best of 9:28.88 at the Portland Track Festival, taking second place to Allie Ostrander. [10]
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