Nairobi (Yonhap News) Correspondent U Man-kwon = Long-distance athlete Agnes Jebet Tirop, bronze medalist at the Kenya World Athletics Championships, was found stabbed to death at her home on the 13th (local time), the Kenya Athletics Federation (AK) said.
“Tyrop was found dead this morning at his home in Itten, west,” AK said in a statement, Reuters reported. did.
This year, 25-year-old Tyrop represented Kenya in the 5,000m event at the Tokyo Olympics and crossed the finish line in fourth place with a time of 14:39.62.
Last month, she won the women’s single 10km marathon in Germany, shortening the previous record by 28 seconds to the first time in 19 years and setting a new world record of 30 minutes and 01 seconds.
Tyrop previously also won the 2015 World Cross-Country Championships.
In 2017 and 2019, he won bronze medals in the 10,000m event at the World Championships in Athletics.
Kenyan athletes finish the women’s 5,000m track and field event at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan on July 30 (local time). [EPA 연합뉴스 자료사진. 재판매 및 DB 금지]
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