Cornelius Kemboi

Cornelius Kemboi (born 29 February 2000) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.

Early and personal life
Kemboi attended St Patrick's High School in Iten, in the west of Kenya, 350 kilometres north-west of Nairobi. His idol growing up was David Rudisha. He has two older brothers who both received athletics scholarships in the United States.

Career
Competing at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in Birmingham, Kemboi finished eleventh in the final of the 5000m.

Kemboi ran a new personal best 5000m time of 13:00.68 at the Night of Athletics meeting in Heusden, Belgium in July 2023. He finished third in the 5000m at the Kenyan World Championship trials for the, held in Nairobi. He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest but diss not qualify for the 5000m final.

He was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga, and finished fifth in the men's 5km race on 1 October 2023.

In January 2024, he won the Discovery Cross Country race in Eldoret in a time of 29:42. He won a bronze medal in the 5000m race at the 2023 African Games in Accra in March 2024.