Chepkemoi wins 5km U18 race at the Agnes Tirop Cross Country tour

Joyline Chepkemoi has won the 5KM Under 18 girls race at the Agnes Tirop Cross country classic tour underway at Lobo Village,Eldoret.

She clocked 18.05 minutes followed by Maureen Chepkoech in second place in 18 .14 minutes while Pamela Kosgei came third in 18.26 minutes.

Joyline Chepkemoi wins the 5Km under 18 girls race at the Agnes Tirop Cross country classic tour underway at Lobo Village,Eldoret. pic.twitter.com/BIKrLBdMdW

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In 1km race,Malon Kipkorir and Brenda Jerono won the boys and girls.

Kipkrorir, a pupil at St Matthews Preparatory, Nandi, clocked five minutes and 01.3 seconds to win beating Kelvin Kichumba to second place in 5:08.6 as Collins Kipkemboi sealed the last podium place in 5:12.4.

Jerono, also from St St Matthews Preparatory, timed 5:22.3 to win the girls race, beating Mercy Jerop and Nancy Jerop to second and third places in 5:25.8 and 5:29.9 respectively.

Tirop was part of the Kenyan contingent that did the country proud in Tokyo Olympics . She put up a spirited fight but lost out in the battle of titans in the women’s 5,000m race after finishing fourth. Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands won the gold medal, Kenya’s Hellen Obiri bagged silver and Ethiopia’s Gudaf got bronze.

An accomplished athlete, Tirop won the 2015 World Cross Country Championships senior women’s title in Guiyang, China at 19 years and retained the crown two years later in Kampala, Uganda. She was the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships 10,000m bronze medallist as well as the 2012 and 2014 World Athletics Championships junior bronze medallist.

Tirop was killed just a month after she broke the women-only 10km world record at an Adidas event in Germany, with a time of 30:01 minutes, dipping 28 seconds inside the previous record.

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