Sheila Jebet
Sheila Jebet is a Kenyan long-distance and cross country runner.
Career
2024
In March 2024, she won the U20 Kenyan Cross Country Championships in Ruiru, Kiambu County. On 30 March 2024, she finished fourth in the U20 individual event, and won the silver medal in the team U20 race, at the 2024 [World Athletics Cross Country Championships] in Serbia. She was selected for the 5000 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, placing fifth overall.She travelled to Europe for the conclusion of the 2024–25 World Athletics Cross [Country Tour]. She finished second to Charity Cherop at the Cardiff Cross Country Challenge in November 2024, a World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold race. Later that month, she finished runner-up at the Cinque Mulini in Italy.
2025
She won the World Cross Country Tour Gold event in Hannut, Belgium, in January 2025. She finished third in the overall World Cross Country Tour 2024-25 standings, behind Italian Nadia Battocletti and Burundi’s Francine Niyomukunzi.On 8 November, she was runner-up at the women's 6km race at the Cardiff Cross Challenge in Wales, a gold race part of the World Athletics Cross Country Tour, finishing behind compatriot Cynthia Chepkirui. The following week she was runner-up at the Cross Internacional de Soria, and then runner-up at the Cross de Atapuerca in Spain on the 23 November.