Agnes Jebet Tirop 
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nation
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Kenya Kenya
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birthday
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23rd October 1995 (age 24)
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discipline
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Long distance running
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status
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active
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last change: October 11, 2019
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Agnes Jebet Tirop (born October 23, 1995 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .
Tirop won the bronze medal in the 5000 meter run at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona in 2012 . In 2013 she finished second in the junior women's race at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz and won the team championship with Kenya. In the same year she took seventh place over 5000 meters at the Bislett Games in Oslo and ninth place at Weltklasse Zürich . At the Junior World Championships in 2014 in Eugene, she repeated her success from 2012 with third place in the 5000 meter race. In 2015, she surprisingly won the Cross Country World Championships in Guiyang . This made her the second youngest female cross-country champion after the South African Zola Budd . At the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London , she won the bronze medal in the 10,000 meter final.
Personal bests
- 3000 m: 8: 27.51 min, June 30, 2019 in Palo Alto
- 5000 m: 14: 20.68 min, July 21, 2019 in London
- 10 km road run: 30:50 min, September 2, 2018 in Tilburg
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ Emeterio Valiente: Barcelona 2012 - Event Report - Women's 5000m Final ( English ) IAAF. July 11, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
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↑ Nicola Bamford: Kipyegon majestic in title defense - Bydgoszcz 2013 junior women's report ( English ) IAAF. March 22, 2013. Accessed March 28, 2015.
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↑ 5000 meters - women - senior - outdoor - 2013 ( English ) IAAF. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
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^ René van Zee: World Junior Championships in Eugene - Oregon (USA) . LaufReport.de. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
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↑ Jessica Whittington: Agnes Tirop wins senior women's World Cross title in China ( English ) Athletics Weekly. March 28, 2015. Accessed March 28, 2015.
Kenya
