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Nationality | Ugandan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 10 November 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Uganda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics Mountain running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Cross-country running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | U.S. Quercia Trentingrana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Victor Kiplangat (born 10 November 1999) is a Ugandan marathon runner, who became world champion in 2023. He won the World Mountain Running Championships in 2017 as a teenager.[1]
In 2022 he won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in the men's marathon event, despite taking a wrong turn close to the end of the course.[2][3] On August 27, 2023 he won the marathon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
Achievements
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Notes |
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Athletics | ||||||
2016 | World U20 Championships | Bydgoszcz | 19th | 5000 m | 14:21.22 | |
2017 | Cross Country World Championships | Kampala | 19th | Junior men's race (8 km) | 24:29 | |
2022 | Commonwealth Games | Birmingham | 1st | Marathon | 2:10:55 | |
2023 | World Athletics Championships | Budapest | 1st | Marathon | 2:08:53 | |
Mountain running | ||||||
2017 | World Championships | Premana | 1st | Men's race (13 km) | 52:31 |
References
[edit]- ^ "World Trophy (1991-2008)/World Championships (2009 on)". wmra.ch. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
- ^ "Marathon - Men's Marathon". BBC Sport. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games 2022: Victor Kiplangat wins marathon despite going wrong way". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
External links
[edit]- Victor Kiplangat at World Athletics
- Victor Kiplangat at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
- Victor Kiplangat at ARRS
- Victor Kiplangat at ITRA
- Victor Kiplangat at Olympics.com
Categories:
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Ugandan mountain runners
- Ugandan male long-distance runners
- World Mountain Running Championships winners
- 21st-century Ugandan people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Uganda
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Olympic athletes for Uganda
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Ugandan athletics biography stubs