- Beatrice Chebet and Gudaf Tsegay will battle it out once again this season at the 2025 Rome Diamond League on Friday, June 6.
- Chebet and Tsegay hold the 5k road race and 5000m world records respectively at the moment.
- Most of the athletes who will compete against Chebet and Tsegay in 5000m at the 2025 Rome Diamond League hail from Ethiopia.
The 2025 Rome Diamond League will host some of the most thrilling matches in track, as the compelling 5000m rivalry between Gudaf Tsegay and Beatrice Chebet takes stage once again this year.
Every time Chebet and Tsegay, who holds the current 5000m world record of 14:00.21 meet, the battle is usually hot.
However, Chebet has had an edge over the Ethiopian track queen in the past one year, including in their latest clash in Xiamen Diamond League a few weeks ago.
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How Beatrice Chebet and Gudaf Tsegay have performed recently
In Xiamen, the Kenyan ran a tactical race to win the title in a world lead time of 14.27.12 ahead of Tsegay and Birke Haylom.
Tsegay and her fellow Ethiopian countrywoman Haylom clocked 14:28.18 and 14:28.80 respectively in that epic race.
Chebet, a one-time 5000m Olympic Games gold medalist, went on to feature in the 3000m race at the Rabat Diamond League meeting where she once again triumphed, clocking a new African record of 8:11.56 in the process.
Her performance was the second fastest in over 30 years, only second to the current world record of 8:06.11 that was set by China’s Wang Junxia.
Similar to Chebet, Tsegay also emerged victorious in her most recent competitive race at the Boris Hanžeković Memorial in Zagreb where she set a 1500m meeting record of 3:58.14.
Therefore, she is expected to give Chebet a run for her money in Rome where we might witness a new world record.
Athletes who will compete against Beatrice Chebet and Gudaf Tsegay in Rome
Apart from Chebet and Tsegay, the other athletes who are expected to feature in the 5000m race in Rome include Margaret Akidor, Maureen Koster, Freweyni Hailu, Megan Keith, Nadia Battocletti and Marta Alemayo.
The United States duo of Shelby Houlihan, Josette Andrews and Karissa Schweizer as well as Uganda’s Winnie Nanyondo will also be in the mix.
Beatrice Chebet and other 5000m women entry of Rome Diamond League 2025
- Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia)
- Beatrice Chebet (Kenya)
- Megan Keith (Great Britain)
- Freweyni Hailu (Ethiopia)
- Maureen Koster (Netherlands)
- Francine Niyomukunzi (Burundi)
- Karissa Schweizer (USA)
- Sarah Madeleine (France)
- Winnie Nanyondo (Uganda)
- Shelby Houlihan (USA)
- Senayet Getachew (Ethiopia)
- Marta Garcia (Spain)
- Chaltu Dida (Ethiopia)
- Aleshign Baweke (Ethiopia)
- Margaret Akidor (Kenya)
- Nadia Battocletti (Italy)
- Josette Andrews (USA)
- Marta Alemayo (Ethiopia)
- Asayech Ayichew (Ethiopia)
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