Abraham Kibiwot

Abraham Kibiwot (born 4 June 1996) is a Kenyan steeplechase runner. He won bronze medals in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2023 World Championships, and 2016 African Championships. His personal best is 8:05.51 minutes, set in 2023.

Career Kibiwot made his international debut at the 2013 African Youth Athletics Championships, taking fifth in the 2000 m steeplechase event.

He raised his profile in 2015 first by winning the Kenyan junior trials and the gold medal at the 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships, seeing off Ethiopia's reigning Youth Olympic champion Wogene Sebisibe Sidamo in Addis Ababa. Kibiwot capped that season with a personal best of 8:22.10 at the London Diamond League meet and ranked as the second-fastest under-20 athlete that year behind another Kenyan, Nicholas Kiptanui Bett.

Kibiwot made his breakthrough into the senior ranks in the 2016 season. That year he was prominent on the 2016 Diamond League, starting with a personal best of 8:09.25 to place third in Doha. He finished second behind Ezekiel Kemboi in Beijing and won his first race at Athletissima in Lausanne. He also took fifth place at the Herculis and Memorial Van Damme meets. Kibiwot ran at the 2016 Athletics Kenya Olympic Trials but withdrew from the final. He was selected for the 2016 African Championships in Athletics, where he won his first major medal – a bronze behind Ethiopia's Chala Beyo and Tolosa Nurgi.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Kibiwot earned a bronze medal in the 3000 m steeplechase. At 8:06.47, he finished six hundredths of a second behind American Kenneth Rooks.

Personal bests 3000 metres – 7:56.05 (2021) 5000 metres – 14:10.8 (2015) 2000 metres steeplechase – 5:53.90 (2013) 3000 metres steeplechase – 8:05.51 (2023)

Information from All-Athletics profile

International competitions

Circuit wins Athletissima: 2016