Linet Masai

Linet Masai

Personal information
Born	5 December 1989 (1989-12-05) (age 34) Kapsokwony, Mount Elgon District, Kenya
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Kenya Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 10,000 m World Championships 2009 Berlin 10,000 m 2011 Daegu 10,000 m World Cross Country Championships 2007 Mombasa Junior race 2009 Amman Senior race 2010 Bydgoszcz Senior race 2011 Punta Umbria Senior race 2008 Edinburgh Senior race African Championships 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.