Evans Kiplagat Chebet (born 10 November 1988) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in road races. In 2022, he became the third man this century to win both the Boston Marathon and New York City Marathon. Chebet successfully defended his title at the 2023 Boston Marathon for his third consecutive World Marathon Major victory in a row. He finished third at the 2016 Berlin Marathon.
In September 2019, after finishing in the top six of every marathon he had finished, Chebet won his first international race, the Buenos Aires Marathon, in a time of 2:05:00. The year after, in March 2020, he won the Lake Biwa Marathon with 2:07:29. In December of the same year, he lowered his personal best by exactly two minutes and set a world lead when he won the 2020 Valencia Marathon in 2:03:00, kicking down Lawrence Cherono and winning by four seconds.
Achievements Road races 2011Gargnano Dieci Miglia del GardaGargnano, Italy2nd10 miles50:532012Porto Half MarathonPorto, Portugal3rdHalf marathon1:01:592013JoongAng Seoul MarathonSeoul, South Korea6thMarathon2:11:262014Prague MarathonPrague, Czech Republic2ndMarathon2:08:17JoongAng Seoul MarathonSeoul, South Korea2ndMarathon2:07:462015Coamo San Blas Half MarathonCoamo, Puerto Rico7thHalf marathon1:06:11Prague MarathonPrague, Czech Republic2ndMarathon2:08:502016Seoul International MarathonSeoul, South Korea2ndMarathon2:05:33Berlin MarathonBerlin, Germany3rdMarathon2:05:31Ziwa 10 kmZiwa, Kenya8th10 km29:302017Tokyo MarathonTokyo, Japan4thMarathon2:06:42Tilburg Ten MilesTilburg, Netherlands2nd10 miles45:05.4Valencia MarathonValencia, Spain2ndMarathon2:05:302018Boston MarathonBoston, MA, United States—MarathonZiwa 10 kmZiwa, Kenya17th10 km29:202019Milano City MarathonMilan, Italy2ndMarathon2:07:22Buenos Aires MarathonBuenos Aires, Argentina1stMarathon2:05:002020Lake Biwa MarathonŌtsu, Japan1stMarathon2:07:29Valencia MarathonValencia, Spain1stMarathon2:03:002021London MarathonLondon, United Kingdom4thMarathon2:05:432022Boston MarathonBoston, MA, United States1stMarathon2:06:51New York City MarathonNew York, NY, United States1stMarathon2:08:412023Boston MarathonBoston, MA, United States1stMarathon2:05:542024Boston MarathonBoston, MA, United States3rdMarathon2:07:22New York City MarathonNew York, NY, United States2ndMarathon2:07:45
Personal bests 10 kilometres – 29:39 (Boston, MA 2022) 10 miles – 45:06 (Tilburg 2017) Half marathon – 1:01:59 (Porto 2012) Marathon – 2:03:00 (Valencia 2020)
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