Agnes Tirop

Agnes Tirop
Agnes Tirop wearing a red athletic Nike jacket with a Kenyan flag, a 2019 World Athletics Championships placard, as well as her bronze medal, standing on a podium next to another contestant (not seen in photo), holding a bouquet of yellow flowers, grinning at audience.
Tirop with her bronze medal at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha
Personal information
Birth nameAgnes Jebet Tirop
Born(1995-10-23)23 October 1995
Uasin Gishu County, Kenya[1]
Died13 October 2021(2021-10-13) (aged 25)
Iten, Kenya
Sport
CountryKenya
SportAthletics
Event(s)5000 metres, 10,000 metres; Cross country
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
  • 2020 Tokyo
  • 5000 m – 4th
World finals
  • 2017 London
  • 10,000 m –  Bronze
  • 2019 Doha
  • 10,000 m –  Bronze
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Kenya Kenya
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2017 London 10,000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Doha 10,000 m
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Barcelona 5000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Eugene 5000 m
World Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Bydgoszcz Junior team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Guiyang Senior race
Gold medal – first place 2017 Kampala Senior team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Bydgoszcz Junior race
Silver medal – second place 2015 Guiyang Senior team
African Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Kampala Junior race
Silver medal – second place 2012 Cape Town Junior race

Agnes Jebet Tirop (23 October 1995 – 13 October 2021) was a Kenyan professional long-distance runner. She won bronze medals in the 10,000 metres at the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships. At the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Tirop became the second-youngest ever gold medallist in the women's race, after Zola Budd. At the time of her death in 2021, she was the world-record holder in the 10 kilometres women's-only event.[2]

At junior level, she was a bronze medallist at the 2012 and 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics as well as the silver medallist at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She won a silver and a gold at the 2012 and 2014 African Cross Country Championships, respectively.

Tirop died at age 25 after being stabbed by her husband. She was buried in her hometown in the Kenyan highlands at a funeral attended by over 1,000 mourners.[3]

  1. ^ Eurosport.com. Agnes Jebet Tirop. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  2. ^ "World record-holder Tirop dies". World Athletics. 13 October 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  3. ^ Okeowo, Alexis (10 April 2023). "Why Were Two Female Running Champions Killed in Kenya?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 April 2023.