Beatrice Chebet aims to break more world records and win her first World Championship gold in 2025.
World 10,000m record holder Beatrice Chebet hopes the 2025 season will present more opportunities for her to break world records.
Beatrice Chebet was on fire in 2024, starting with a title defence at the World Cross Country Championships before shattering the 10,000m world record in just but her second 25-lap race.
She clocked an impressive 28:54.14 to win the 10,000m race at the Prefontaine Classic, punching a ticket to the Paris Olympic Games. Chebet then finished second behind Faith Kipyegon in the 5000m race at the Kenyan Olympic trials.
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At the Paris Olympic Games, she achieved a historical milestone, winning the gold medals in the 5000m and 10,000m and continued her winning streak to a series of Diamond League Meetings. The Kenyan distance star then rounded up her track season with a trophy at the Diamond League Meeting final in Brussels.
Beatrice Chebet ended her season on a high note, breaking her 5km world record at the Cursa dels Nassos and she hopes to continue the same trend in 2025.
“For now, I haven’t planned anything but records are there to be broken and one thing I know is that everything has its own time and I pray that the records come,” Beatrice Chebet told reporters during the launch of the Sirikwa Classic Cross Country.
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“For now, I will focus on the World Championships because I don’t have a gold medal and that’s the main thing, at least I get one gold medal.
“So far, I’m yet to decide but the important thing is the qualification, whether it’s the 5km or 10km. We have to go for the trials then I will decide, I can’t conclude now.”
Beatrice Chebet won a silver at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon and a bronze in Budapest in 2023 and she will be keen to go one place better.
She also has hopes to break the 5000m world record, having gone closer to that time on two occasions. At last year’s Diamond League Meeting in Zurich, in the harsh weather conditions, Chebet clocked a world-leading time of 14:09.52.
She is ranked third-fastest overall, thanks to the 14:05.92 she ran at the Prefontaine Classic in 2023 when she finished second behind Gudaf Tsegay who broke Faith Kipyegon’s record.
Tsegay clocked 14:00.21 to obliterate Kipyegon’s record of 14:05.20 that had been set the same year at the Diamond League Meeting in Florence, Italy.
