Agnes Jebet Ngetich
| File:Agnes Ngetich.jpg Ngetich in the 10,000 m at the 2023 World Athletics Championships | |
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| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Born | 23 January 2001 Keiyo District |
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| Country | Kenya |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Long-distance running |
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Agnes Jebet Ngetich (born 23 January 2001)[1] is a Kenyan long-distance runner. She won two medals at the 2023 World Cross Country Championships with bronze in the senior women's race and team gold.[2] In January 2024, with a time of 28:46, she set the 10 km run world record in Valencia, breaking the previous record by 28 seconds. En route to this time, Ngetich also broke the 5 km run world record, splitting 14:13 at 5 km which was 6 seconds faster than the previous world record.[3][4] Ngetich also holds the second fastest half marathon mark in history, at 1 hour 3 minutes and 4 seconds.[5]
Career
[edit | edit source]At the age of 16, Ngetich placed 8th in the 2017 Under-20 Kenya National Cross Country. That same year, she finished 6th in the World Youth Trials, clocking 9:13.0 over 3000 meters.[6]
In February 2018, Ngetich rose to 4th place in the Under-20 Kenya National Cross Country division. Shortly after, she secured another 4th position at the Under-20 Africa Cross Country Championship in Algeria, contributing to Kenya's Team Gold win.[7] In March 2019, aged 18, Ngetich won the 5000 metres at the Kenya African Under-20 Trials.[1]
In September 2022, Ngetich finished runner-up to Sheila Chepkirui at the Brasov Running Festival 10 km road race in Brașov, Romania.[8]
2023
[edit | edit source]On 18 February 2023, aged 22, Ngetich won the bronze medal in the individual race and gold in the team standings at the World Cross Country Championships held in Bathurst, Australia.[9][10][11]
In September 2023, Ngetich broke the women-only world 10km record in the Transylvania 10km in Brasov, Romania, with a time of 29:24. This surpassed the previous mark of 30:01 set by Agnes Tirop in Herzogenaurach in 2021. Ngetich completed the first 5km in 14:25, which was four seconds faster than the previous women-only world record over this distance. The same month, the organizers of the run released a statement that the distance of the run was 25 m short which led to a non-record-eligible course.[12]
2024
[edit | edit source]On 14 January 2024, Ngetich set a world record for the 10 km run by a woman in a mixed-gender race. At the 10K Valencia Ibercaja, she improved on the former world record of Yalemzerf Yehualaw by 28 seconds. Ngetich had a finishing time of 28:46, becoming the first woman to break the 29 minute barrier, on the roads or track. Her performance was faster than Letesenbet Gidey’s then-10,000 m world record of 29:01.03, and faster than the current 10,000 m world record of 28:54.14 set by Beatrice Chebet. She also improved the world record for the 5 km run by a woman in a mixed-gender race as she went through the 5km checkpoint in 14:13, 6 seconds faster than the previous record set by Ethiopia’s Ejgayehu Taye in 2021.[4]
At the 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Serbia she finished in fifth place as Kenya won team gold.[13]
On 27 October 2024, Ngetich won the Valencia Half Marathon in a time of 1 hour 3 minutes and 4 seconds, missing Letesenbet Gidey's world record of 1 hour 2 minutes and 52 seconds by 13 seconds. This time places Ngetich as the second fastest half marathon runner in history behind Gidey.[5]
2025
[edit | edit source]On 22 February 2025, she won the Sirikwa Classic, the World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold meeting in Eldoret.[14] On 4 April 2025, she finished second in the opening Long Distance race of Grand Slam Track in Kingston, Jamaica, running 3000 metres in a personal best 8:28.75, to finish just behind Ejgayehu Taye.[15] In the 5000 metres race that weekend, she again finished runner-up to Taye, running 14:59.80.[16] She ran 14:25.80 to win the women’s 5000 metres race at the second slam event in Miami on 2 May 2025, in a sprint finish with Medina Eisa of Ethiopia.[17] In the subsequent 3000 metres she finished high enough in the standings to win the overall two-race format.[18] She won the long distance category on 31 May 2025 at the 2025 Philadelphia Slam.[19] In the 5000 metres at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic she finished in second place in 14:01.29, the third-fastest time in history, behind Beatrice Chebet's world record run.[20] She won the 5000 metres in the 2025 Diamond League at the 2025 Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, Belgium.[21] She was coached by Ruth Jepchumba Bundotich. After her world record run, she dedicated it to both her mother and coach Bundotich.[22]
She was named in the Kenyan team for the 5000 metres and the 10,000 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.[23] She had a fourth place finish in the women's 10,000 metres race.[24] She was also a finalist in the women's 5000 metres, placing fifteenth.[25]
Statistics
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