Linet Masai

Linet Masai
Personal information
Born5 December 1989 (1989-12-05) (age 34)
Kapsokwony, Mount Elgon District, Kenya
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Kenya
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing 10,000 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Berlin 10,000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Daegu 10,000 m
World Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Mombasa Junior race
Silver medal – second place 2009 Amman Senior race
Silver medal – second place 2010 Bydgoszcz Senior race
Silver medal – second place 2011 Punta Umbria Senior race
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Edinburgh Senior race
African Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Nairobi 10,000 m

Linet Chepkwemoi Masai (born 5 December 1989) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who competes in track and cross country running events. She won her first world title in the 10,000 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.

Masai became the world junior cross country champion in 2007 and set a world junior record for the 10,000 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics, placing fourth in the final. In 2017 she was awarded the olympic bronze medal after the initial silver medallist Elvan Abeylegesse tested positive for a banned steroid in a retest of her 2007 doping sample, thus Masai became the first kenyan woman to win a medal in a 10,000m olympic event. She was the runner-up at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships three times consecutively from 2009 to 2011. At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, she won her second world track medal, taking third in the 10,000 m.