Agnes Jeruto Barsosio is a

Kenyan The Demographics of Kenya is monitored by the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics. Kenya is a multi-ethnic state in East Africa. Its total population was at 47,558,296 as of the 2019 census. A national census was conducted in 1999, although t ...

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

and

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runner. She was born in 1983. She competes for the Kenya national team and represents Kenya in international athletics competitions. Barsosio was issued with a five year ban from competition by the Athletics Integrity Unit in September 2023 due to a doping violation.

Career

In 2008, she was the second best athlete in the

Lille Half Marathon The Lille Métropole Half Marathon ( French: ''Semi-Marathon de Lille Métropole'') is an annual half marathon foot race which takes place in Lille, France, in early September. First organised by the Association de Promotion des Événements Lil ...

and won the Foulees Monterelaises. She finished second in the 10 km race at Taroudant. In the same year, she debuted on the

Düsseldorf Marathon The Düsseldorf Marathon is an annual road marathon in Düsseldorf, Germany in early May, first held in 2003. The generally flat course runs through parts of the city and alongside the banks of the Rhine. The race day also includes other events ...

and won the race. In April 2012, Agnes competed in the 10th Metro Group Marathon Düsseldorf. This was her debut in the marathon and she both won and set a new course record in a time of 2:25:49, surpassing the previous record by just under a minute. On 6 May 2017, Barsosio competed in the sixth edition of

České Budějovice Half Marathon The České Budějovice Half Marathon is an annual half marathon race which takes place in early June in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Known as the Mattoni 1873, Mattoni České Budějovice Half Marathon, it is a part of RunCzech running ci ...

held in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. She emerged winner and set a new course record with a time of 1:09:53 after defeating fellow Kenyan female athletes, Rebecca Cheris and

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. On June 3, 2017, she competed in the Budweis half marathon, where she reached a new personal best of 01:09:56. On June 25, 2017, she set a new race record in the sixth Ceske Budejovice Half Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in a record time of 1:09:53. This achievement broke the previous record of 1:10:40 set last year by

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of Ethiopia. In September 2023, Barsosio was issued with a five-year ban for an anti-doping rule violation in relation to abnormalities in an her Athlete Biological Passport. The initial six-year ban was reduced by one year as she admitted breaking the rules.

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* 1983 births Living people Kenyan female long-distance runners Kenyan female marathon runners Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Kenyan sportswomen Doping cases in athletics Kenyan sportspeople in doping cases {{Kenya-athletics-bio-stub