- Three Kenyan athletes including Beatrice Chebet have set records in different disciplines in 2025.
- Chebet, who is a two-time Olympic Games champion, broke the 3000m African record at the 2025 Rabat Diamond League.
- Apart from Chebet, Agnes Jebet Ngetich and Ferdinand Omanyala have also set new African and world records in 2025.
2025 is promising to be a good year for Kenyan athletes particularly Beatrice Chebet, Ferdinand Omanyala and Agnes Jebet Ngetich.
Chebet, Ngetich and Omanyala continue to cement Kenya’s legacy as a global running powerhouse.
Chebet reminded the world what she is made of on Sunday night at the thrilling 2025 Rabat Diamond League.
On the other hand, Omanyala and Ngetich have delivered some electrifying performances in recent weeks.
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SportPesa Blog analyses three Kenyan athletes who have set new African and world records since the start of the 2025 season.
Beatrice Chebet sets a novel 3000m African record
Chebet shocked athletics fans at the 2025 Rabat Diamond League when she led for the bigger part of the 3000m race and went on to set a new African record of 8:11.56.
The Kenyan, who is slowly becoming the queen of the track, narrowly missed the current world record of 8:06.11 that was set by a Chinese athlete Wang Junxia in 1993.
The record is expected to improve Chebet’s confidence as she prepares for the 2025 World Athletics Championships.
Omanyala lowers his 150m African record
Besides Chebet, another Kenyan runner who has managed to set a new record this year, is Omanyala.
Omanyala, who is known by most of his fans as “The Beast from Nairobi” clocked 14.70 seconds at the 2025 Adidas Atlanta City Games in the United States to improve his 150m African record.
After the historic display, Omanyala took part in the Rabat Diamond League where he crossed the finishing line in 10.05 seconds to settle for a second position in the 100m discipline behind South Africa’s Akani Simbine.
Agnes Jebet Ngetich enters into record books in Germany
Besides Chebet and Omanyala, another Kenyan runner that has managed to smash a continental or world record in 2025 so far is Ngetich.
Ngetich clocked 29.27 to break the 10km women-only world record on April 26 at the Adizero Road to Records in Germany.
The previous world record of 30.01 was held by the late Agnes Tirop, who also hailed from Kenya.
The impeccable performance ensured she became the first woman to break the sub-30 minutes barrier.
For Chebet, Omanyala and Ngetich and other Kenyan athletes including Faith Kipyegon, more is still to come in 2025.
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