Men’s 10,000m ✨
🥇 Cheptegei 🇺🇬
🥈 Berihu Aregawi 🇪🇹
🥉 Grant Fisher 🇺🇸
Paris, France | THE INDEPENDENT & IAAF | Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei run a perfectly times race, to win the 10,000m gold in an Olympic record of 26:43.14 on Friday night.
He becomes the first Ugandan to win the 10,000m gold, and now at 3 medals, is the country’s greatest ever Olympian.
The men’s 10,000m title at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games finally earns him the sport’s highest honour at his favoured distance. It also earns his sh100million that government promised for a gold medal.
The world record-holder had won the past three world titles over 10,000m, but wound up with silver at the last Games, beaten by Ethiopia’s Selemon Barega.
This time, however, he timed his race to perfection and hit the front with less than 600 metres to go before sprinting to glory on the final lap, winning in an Olympic record.
Ethiopia’s Berihu Aregawi took silver in 26:43.44 and USA’s Grant Fisher earned bronze in 26:43.66.
List of medalists of previous Ugandan medalists
| Medal | Name | Games | Sport | Event |
| Silver | Eridadi Mukwanga | 1968 Mexico City | Boxing | Men’s bantamweight |
| Bronze | Leo Rwabwogo | 1968 Mexico City | Boxing | Men’s flyweight |
| Gold | John Akii-Bua | 1972 Munich | Athletics | Men’s 400 metre hurdles |
| Silver | Leo Rwabwogo | 1972 Munich | Boxing | Men’s flyweight |
| Silver | John Mugabi | 1980 Moscow | Boxing | Men’s welterweight |
| Bronze | Davis Kamoga | 1996 Atlanta | Athletics | Men’s 400 metres |
| Gold | Stephen Kiprotich | 2012 London | Athletics | Men’s marathon |
| Gold | Peruth Chemutai | 2020 Tokyo | Athletics | Women’s 3000 metres steeplechase |
| Gold | Joshua Cheptegei | 2020 Tokyo | Athletics | Men’s 5,000 metres |
| Silver | Joshua Cheptegei | 2020 Tokyo | Athletics | Men’s 10,000 metres |
| Bronze | Jacob Kiplimo | 2020 Tokyo | Athletics | Men’s 10,000 metres |