Abraham Naibei Cheroben (born 11 October 1992) is a Kenyan born Bahraini long-distance runner who won the

Valencia Half Marathon The Valencia Half Marathon ( es, Medio Maratón de Valencia) is an annual half marathon road running event held in Valencia, Spain, since 1988. It is categorized as a Gold Label Road Race by World Athletics. The race is organised by the Valen ...

in 2014 and 2015. He finished tenth in the

10,000 m The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship level events. The ra ...

event at the

2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

. In 2017 he won the Copenhagen Half in the 4th ever best time for a half marathon: 58.40 min

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* 1992 births Living people Bahraini male long-distance runners Naturalized citizens of Bahrain Kenyan emigrants to Bahrain Olympic athletes of Bahrain Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Bahrain Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Asian Games gold medalists for Bahrain Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games {{Bahrain-athletics-bio-stub