Kenya: History Made As Beatrice Chebet Bags Kenya's First Gold at World U-20

Beatrice Chebet made history as the first Kenya woman to win the 5,000m title, when she demolished a strong field to romp to victory at the World Under-20 Championships in athletics in Tampere, Finland on Tuesday.

Chebet, who had vowed to battle her Ethiopian rivals to the end and end their dominance, stayed in the middle of the pack before bolting to zoom past Ethiopian Ejgayehu Taye with 300m to go to win in a personal best of 15 minutes and 30.77 seconds.

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