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Kenya: Fare Thee Well - Tears As Agnes Tirop Is Buried in Mosoriot
Nation, 23 October 2021
The Kenyan leg of the World Athletics Cross Country Tour which will be held in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County in February next year will be named after the late Agnes Tirop. Read more »
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Kenya: Agnes Tirop - Murdered Olympic Runner Buried in Kenya
DW, 23 October 2021
Hundreds of people gathered to bid farewell to Agnes Tirop who was found dead 10 days ago. The athlete had represented her country in the Tokyo Olympics. Read more »
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Kenya: 'She Was Our Light' - Agnes Tirop's Burial Underway in Nandi County
Nation, 23 October 2021
The burial ceremony for Kenya's 2015 World Cross Country champion Agnes Jebet Tirop is underway at her parents home in Kapnyamisa Village, Mosoriot in Nandi County. Read more »
Slain Kenyan Olympian Agnes Tirop Laid To Rest
Hundreds of people gathered to bid farewell to record-breaking long-distance runner Agnes Tirop, who was stabbed to death in her home. Tirop represented Kenya in the 2020 Olympic games for long-distance running. She was buried on what would have been her 26th birthday.
Her husband, Ibrahim Rotich admitted to killing the athlete before fleeing her home. Rotich owned up to killing Tirop, saying their relationship was full of fights, and he had decided to end the life of the athlete. Tirop's family has claimed the plot to kill the athlete could have been hatched when she was in Japan for the Olympic games three months ago when most of her property changed ownership. The family suspect she might have been killed due to a tussle over property ownership.
Last month, Tirop smashed the women-only 10km world record in Germany. She won bronze medals at the 2017 and 2019 world championships in the 10,000m.
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Kenyan world record holder Agnes Tirop was found stabbed to death at her home in the western town of Iten on October 13, 2021. The fact that the police Read more »
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Ibrahim Rotich, the prime suspect in the murder of two-time world 10,000 metres bronze medalist Agnes Tirop, admitted to killing the athlete before fleeing her home. Read more »
Kenya's Agnes Jebet Tirop, right, competes in the Women's 5,000m race heats during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on July 30, 2021.
