Victor Kiplangat
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 Kiplangat at the 2023 World Athletics Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Ugandan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 November 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Uganda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics Mountain running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Cross-country running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | U.S. Quercia Trentingrana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Victor Kiplangat (born 10 November 1999) is a Ugandan marathon runner, who became world champion in 2023. He won the World Mountain Running Championships in 2017 as a teenager.[1]
In 2022 he won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in the men's marathon event, despite taking a wrong turn close to the end of the course.[2][3] On August 27, 2023 he won the marathon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
