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| Birth name | Winny Chepngetich Bii | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Kenya | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 December 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Triple Jump, Long jump | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal bests | Long jump 6.20m (Nairobi, 2022) Triple jump: 13.66m (Lubbock, 2024) NR | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Winny Chepngetich Bii (born 27 December 2003) is a Kenyan track and field athlete. She is the Kenyan national record holder in the triple jump. [1]
From Kericho, she trained at the Kaptere Athletics camp in Kericho County. She later trained in Miramas in France before joining Oklahoma State University. [2]
In 2022, she became the first Kenyan to qualify for the long jump at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. [3] She also competed in the triple jump at the event. [4]
In January 2024, competing for Oklahoma State University, Bii set a new national record in the triple jump as she won the Arkansas Invitational at the Randal Tyson Indoor Centre, Fayetteville, Arkansas with a leap of 13.49 metres. She broke the previous record set by Gloria Mulei set in 2019. [5]
In February 2024, she extended her own national triple jump record to 13.66 metres at the Big 12 Indoor Championships. In March 2024, she was a silver medalist in the triple jump at the 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana with a jump of 13.64 metres. [6]
She jumped 14.01 cm to finish runner-up by a centimetre at the 2025 SEC Championships in Kentucky in May 2025 whilst competing for Texas A&M. [7]
