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| Birth name | Martin Magengo Kiprotich | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Ugandan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 April 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Cross country, long distance running | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 10000m: 28:46.10 (2023) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Martin Magengo Kiprotich (born 6 April 2003) is an Ugandan cross country and long distance runner. [1]
He was runner-up at the Ugandan U20 Cross Country Championships in 2022. A tendon injury prevented him from competing at the 2022 World U20 Championships in August 2022. However, he recovered to win the Senior Ugandan Cross Country Championships in Tororo in December 2022, at the age of 19 years-old. [2]
He finished eighteenth and was a bronze medal winner in the men's team competition at the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia. [3] [4]
He ran at the 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Belgrade. [5]
He competed in the 10,000 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024. [6] [7] [8]
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