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What honour did Cheptegei earn in 2019 in addition to being the World champion?

  • Olympic Gold

  • World Cross Country champion

  • Commonwealth Games Champion

  • He did not earn any other honour

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Joshua Cheptegei, a Ugandan long-distance runner, won the men's 10,000 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, with a time of 26:11.00. He also won the World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, in 2019. This made him the first athlete to win both events in the same year since Hicham El Guerrouj in 1998.
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