 Reynold Cheruiyot in 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Born | 30 July 2004 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests | 1500m: 3:30.30 (Chorzow, 2023) One Mile: 3:48.06 (Eugene, 2023) (WU20R) 5000m: 13:33.05 (Nairobi, 2022) |
Medal record | |
Reynold Kipkorir Cheruiyot (born 30 July 2004) is a Kenyan runner who competes in track and field and cross-country. [1] He holds the current world junior record in the mile run.
He hails from Bomet County in Kenya. Both of his parents were athletes, but only raced in Kenya. He is not a relation of Timothy Cheruiyot but he has described him as his role model. [2] He slowed down to allow Timothy Cheruiyot to overtake him at the finish line of the Kenyan World Championship Trials in July 2023 out of respect for him. [3]
In August 2022, he won gold at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, in the 1500m race. [4]
In January 2023, he finished second at the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia, in the U20 race. In April 2023 he won gold in the 1500m at the African U20 Championships in Ndola, Zambia. [5] He also finished second at the 5k at the Lille Half Marathon. [6]
In May 2023, he lowered his personal best for the 1500m to 3:32.02 in Nairobi. [7] Later that month he ran 1500m in 3:32.01 in Los Angeles. [8] He lowered it to 3:30.30 at the Diamond League event in Silesia in July 2023. [9]
Selected for the 1500m at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, he qualified for the final, in which he finished eighth. [10] In September 2023, he set a new under-20 world record for the mile, running 3:48.06 at the Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon. [11] This time improved the previous record of İlham Tanui Özbilen by over a second and was ratified by World Athletics in November 2023. [12]
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World U20 Champions in men's 1500 metres | |
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