Memorial Agnes Tirop World X-Country Tour Launched And Course Revealed

Memorial Agnes Tirop World X-Country Tour Launched And Course Revealed

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The World Athletics Federations has launched the Memorial Agnes Tirop World Cross Country Tour Gold in Kenya. Memorial Agnes Tirop world x-country tour launched and course revealed.

Brief history about the late Agnes Tirop

“Agnes Jebet Tirop was a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who mainly competed in the 5000 metres and cross country running. At the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships she became the second-youngest ever gold medallist in the women’s race after Zola Budd. She was born on 23rd October 1995 in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. His dead occurred on 13 October 2021 in Iten, Kenya”.  

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Memorial Agnes Tirop World Cross Country Tour, to be held in Eldoret on 12 February.

Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Heritage and Culture, Dr. Amina Mohamed, as well as Athletics Kenya President Major Jackson Tuwei, Uasin Gishu County Governor Jackson Mandago, and world marathon record-holder Eliud Kipchoge, were all present at the event.

Following Tirop’s alleged murder, many of the remarks were on the struggle to ensure that no more such murders occurred in Kenya’s sporting community.

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It is sad to be naming races after young runners who would still be running them,” said two-time Olympic champion Kipchoge.

“It would be understandable if it were an accident or an illness,” he added. “If we want to change Kenya, we don’t have to be leaders holding any office, because if we don’t hold any offices, we have families to lead. We need to have values that reflect us.”

“We have already saved two women so far who were in a similar situation to Agnes, and are now in the process of finalising and working on the report we gathered from the consultative meetings with athletes across the country,” Tuwei added.