Samwel Mwera Chegere (born 3 June 1985) is a Tanzanian middle distance runner who specializes in the

800 __NOTOC__ Year 800 ( DCCC) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 800th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 800th year of the 1st millennium, the 100th and last year of the 8th century, a ...

and

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1500-metre run is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilomet ...

. He was born in

Musoma Musoma is a city in the east shore of Lake Victoria of Tanzania. It is the capital of Mara Region, one of the administrative Regions of Tanzania. It also serves as the administrative centre of Musoma Rural District and Musoma Urban District. L ...

Competition record

Personal bests

800 metres The 800 metres, or 800 meters (American and British English spelling differences#-re.2C -er, US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of a ...

- 1:45.28 min (2005) *

- 3:35.42 min (2004) *

5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a sta ...

- 13:29.14 min (2005)

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* 1985 births Living people People from Musoma People from Mara Region Tanzanian male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Tanzania Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Tanzania African Games gold medalists for Tanzania Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 All-Africa Games Australian Athletics Championships winners 21st-century Tanzanian sportsmen African Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) {{Tanzania-athletics-bio-stub