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Introducing Stella Chesang, by Steve Landells, for NN Running Team

RBR Adminby RBR Admin
June 19, 2018
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Here’s a nice feature on NN Running Team member Stella Chesang, who won the Commonwealth Games 10,000m in April 2018. A versatile runner, where will we see her next?

NNTeamJan18_622.jpgStella Chesang, January 2018, photo courtesy of NN Running Team

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Introducing Stella Chesang

Recently crowned Commonwealth 10,000m champion Stella Chesang is one of the rising stars in the NN Running Team stable. Here we find out more about the versatile and gifted Ugandan, who hopes to inspire the next generation of female athletes in her homeland.

Chip off the old block

Growing up in large family in the Kween District on the slopes of Mount Elgon in East Uganda, Stella, the second eldest of the nine siblings, showed a gift for running from a young age.

She recalls winning the 3000m in what was her very first race as an 11-year-old primary school student, and the Ugandan believes her gifts were handed down from her father.

“He was a former 5000m and 10,000m runner at school,” she explains of her dad. “He has passed on much advice and many words of encouragement. He told me that I too had a big talent.”

Spanish steps

Aged just 14 she made the Ugandan team to compete in the U20 race at the 2011 World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria in Spain. She finished 39th – more than two minutes behind race winner Faith Kipyegon of Kenya, the World and Olympic 1500m champion – but it proved a pivotal race in her career development.

“It was my first international event and my first time on a plane,” she recalls. “I was really excited to compete against the other runners and to finish 39th there was when I first realised I had a talent (for running). I saw people were running seriously and that I needed to train hard too.”

Age group success

Returning to Uganda motivated by her World Cross experience she duly stepped up her training under a local coach and made significant progress. In 2013 she returned to the U20 race at the World Cross Country Championships and this time finished in 14th. Later that year she posted a national U20 3000m record (9:11.03) to place fourth at the World U18 Championships in Ukraine. At the 2014 World U20 Championships in Eugene, she secured fourth in the 5000m, posting a PB of 15:35.85. For Stella, there was no hint of frustration at twice just missing a medal.

“I did not feel bad, I felt okay because I knew that my time will come,” she says.

Kapchorwa shift

Later in 2014, Stella made a crucial move by moving to Kapchorwa and she joined the Global Sports Communication training camp after the Rio Olympics. Here she came under the influence of her current coach Addy Ruiter and she also felt the benefit of training alongside a group of world-class athletes led by Joshua Cheptegei, the 2017 World 10,000m silver medallist and second fastest man in history over 15km.

“Joshua has helped me and so many others in the camp,” she explains. “When we go for speed work sessions he offers advice. He encouraged me when I finished fourth at World Juniors and more recently in Gold Coast (at the Commonwealth Games).

Mountain high

In 2015 she signed off her U20 career with a 5000m bronze medal at the African Junior Championships, before later that year achieving some unexpected global success in mountain running.

A tranche of the sport always popular in Uganda, that year she opted to make her mountain running debut at the Ugandan World Trials. She surprised herself to finish first before, remarkably, winning gold at the World Mountain Running Championships in Wales – in only her second ever mountain running race.

“I did not expect to win that day,” explains the versatile Stella, who claimed top spot by a decisive victory margin of 31 seconds. “I was very happy to take first and receive the Ugandan flag (for victory).”

World Cross frustration

After failing to advance beyond the heat of the 5000m as a 19-year-old at the Rio Olympic Games, Stella turned her focus to the 2017 World Cross Country Championships in her native Uganda.

Hoping to target a top eight finish, unfortunately a knee injury hampered her preparations

in Kampala and she had to settle for 18th in the women’s 10km senior race.

“I was having treatment on my knee the day before the competition and I didn’t get the result I wanted,” she says.

Roadworthy

Free of the injury issues which had plagued her for much of 2017, she ended the year with several encouraging road performances. She ran a handy 50:27 for the 15km distance and claimed a notable second place finish in a PB of 31:54 in the Great Berlin 10km.

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