Jacob Krop (born 4 June 2001) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.
Career
Krop ran
5000 metres
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in 13:14.44, his personal best, in
Abidjan
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on 19 April 2019. After placing 4th at the Kenyan Trials, he qualified on the same distance for the final at the
2019 World Athletics Championships
The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held bet ...
in Doha.
He competed at the
2022 World Athletics Championships
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and won a silver medal in the
men's 5000 metres event.
References
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Kenyan male long-distance runners
World Athletics Championships athletes for Kenya
2001 births
Living people
People from West Pokot County
21st-century Kenyan people