He won in Boston in 1999 after losing to fellow Kenyan Moses Tanui the year before by only three seconds.
[2] After his retirement from running, Chebet took up maize farming in the region he was born in.
[3][2] According to his brother, Chebet died on 7 July 2023, at the age of 52, after being hospitalized for three days in Eldoret following a short illness.
He has been additionally strugling with a pancreatic disease for three months.
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