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Born | 1 August 1994 | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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Kevin Kipkorir (born 1 August 1994) is a Kenyan sprinter who predominantly competes over 400 metres. [1]
In June 2024, he was a silver medalist with the men's 4 x 400 metres team at the 2024 African Championships in Athletics in Douala, Cameroon. [2]
In April 2025, he won the 400 metres in Nairobi at the national trials. [3] He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China in May 2025, running alongside Zablon Ekwam, Boniface Mweresa and Brian Tinega in the Kenyan men's 4 x 400 metres team which qualified for the final and ensured a place at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships in September 2025, setting the third fastest time in the qualifying round. [4] [5] In June 2025, he ran 44.80 seconds to finish third behind Tinega and national champion George Mutinda in the men's 400m at the Kenyan National Championships, a time that was under the World Championship qualifying standard in the event. [6] The following month, he was named in the Kenyan team for the individual 400 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. [7]