Sarah Chelangat (born 5 June 2001) is a Ugandan

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

athlete who specializes in

long-distance running Long-distance running, or endurance running, is a form of continuous running over distances of at least . Physiologically, it is largely aerobic in nature and requires stamina as well as mental strength. Within endurance running comes two ...

. She represented Uganda at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held bet ...

, competing in women's 5000 metres. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She had shin and knee injuries that kept her off the track for most of 2021 and did not do much at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Her performance in the

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 ...

Nijmegen Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...

in June 2019, 15:00.61, is a Ugandan national record.

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* Ugandan female middle-distance runners Ugandan female long-distance runners 2001 births Living people World Athletics Championships athletes for Uganda Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 African Youth Games Youth Olympic gold medalists for Uganda Youth Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) African Games competitors for Uganda Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Uganda 21st-century Ugandan women {{Uganda-athletics-bio-stub