Who is runner Rebecca Cheptegei?
Cheptegui was born Feb. 22, 1991, and grew up in Cheminy, in the east African nation of Uganda.
Her dad Joseph Cheptegei told reporters that his daughter is a married mother of two daughters, age 9 and 11, and their father lives in Uganda.
She’s been competing professionally in distance races since 2010, according to World Athletics, with her first listed result being a 4-minute, 20.49-second 15th-place finish in the 1,500-meters at the 38th IAAF World Cross Country Championships that year in Poland.
In 2022, she won the Padova Marathon in Italy and finished second in the 10,000-meters at the Ugandan Championships, as well as triumphed in the women’s up-and-down mountain race at the the inaugural World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
She capped off that year finishing in fourth place in the 2022 ADNOC Abu Dhabi Marathon with a personal best time of 2:22:47.
