Evans Kiplagat Chebet

Evans Kiplagat Chebet (born 10 November 1988) 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

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)