Abraham Kosgei Chebii (born 23 December 1979 in

Kaptabuk Kaptabuk is a village and an administrative location in the Kapsowar Division of Elgeyo Marakwet County, Kenya.http://www.worldbank.org/research/povertymaps/kenya/ch5.3.5.pdf Nearest towns are Kapsowar and Iten, (both in Elgeyo-Marakwet County ...

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) is a former Kenyan runner who specialized in the

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. His personal best time is 12:52.99 minutes, achieved in June 2003 in Oslo.

Career

He represented Kenya at the

2004 Athens Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

and reached the final but failed to finish the race. Chebii won the individual and team silver medals in the short race at the

2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 19/20, 2005. The races were held at the Hippodrome Joseph Desjoyaux in Saint-Galmier near Saint-Étienne, France. Reports of the event were given in ''The New York Times'', in ...

. He has won a number of races on the athletics circuit including the

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in 2002 and the Great Ireland Run in 2007 and 2008. He gained selection for the 5000 m at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final and came in ninth place. He won the

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in January 2011, beating the runner-up Vincent Kipruto by a small margin of eleven seconds. His next outing came at the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon and he came third, achieving a personal best of 1:00:07 on the flat course.Viola, Elena (2011-02-27)
Beyu and Incerti win at Roma Ostia

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. Retrieved on 2011-02-27. He graduated from Marakwet High School in 1997. He was spotted by

Moses Kiptanui Moses Kiptanui (born 1 October 1970) is a Kenyan middle and long distance athlete mostly famous for 3,000 m steeplechase in which he was the number one ranked athlete from 1991 to 1995 and three time IAAF World Champion. Kiptanui was also ...

whose team Chebii joined. He belongs to Kimbia Athletics team and is managed by

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and coached by Dieter Hogen. Chebii belongs to

Marakwet :''Marakwet is also a district in Kenya, see Marakwet District'' The Marakwet are one of the groups forming the ethnolinguistic Kalenjin community of Kenya, they speak the Markweta language. The Marakwet live in five territorial sections namely ...

, a tribe of Kalenjin people. He lives now in

, Kenya. He is married and with two children (as of 2006).

Achievements

References

External links

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Pace Sports Management
* IAAF, September 15, 2004

1979 births Living people Kenyan male middle-distance runners Kenyan male long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Kenya People from West Pokot County 20th-century Kenyan people 21st-century Kenyan people {{Kenya-athletics-bio-stub