Agnes Jepkemboi Kiprop (born January 14, 1980) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in marathon events. Initially a cross country specialist, she has focused on marathons since 2008 and has won races in Reims, Turin, Frankfurt, Prague and Hannover. She holds a personal best of 2:23:54 hours for the event.
She took a career break from running in order to start a family and she had her second child in 2007.[1] Kiprop re-emerged as an elite senior marathon runner in 2008 and claimed victory on her debut at the Reims Marathon with a time of 2:32:37 hours.[7] She also won domestically that year, taking the Baringo Half Marathon title in December.[8] The following April she greatly improved her marathon best with a win at the Turin Marathon, where she completed a solo run to set a 2:26:22 course record time.[9] She took a second win in the city that year at the Turin Half Marathon in September.[10] This served as preparation for the Frankfurt Marathon, where she posted a time of 2:26:57 hours to win the race, having almost a minute as a margin of victory over Hellen Kimutai.[11] She defended her title in Baringo at the end of the year, completing a year-long undefeated streak.[12]
Her 2010 season began at the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon. She improved her best for the distance to 1:08:48 hours, but this was only enough for eighth at the high calibre race.[13] Entering the 2010 Boston Marathon in April, she failed to win her fourth consecutive race and was far from her best with an eleventh place finish.[14] She returned to defend her title at the Frankfurt Marathon and, in spite of a personal best run of 2:24:07, she came third behind Caroline Kilel and Dire Tune.[15] She started her next season again at the Ras Al Khaimah race and improved to fifth place.[16] She claimed the runner-up spot at the Paris Marathon two months later.[17]
The 2011 Frankfurt Marathon saw her set a new personal best of 2:23:54 hours and she took second place behind Mamitu Daska.[18] She knocked a minute off her best at the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon in February 2012 and her time of 1:07:22 hours brought her second place behind Florence Kiplagat.[19] She dropped out of the 2012 Boston Marathon due to a bout of typhoid but was the surprise winner of the Prague International Marathon soon after, outrunning her more favoured training partner Lydia Cheromei.[20] She returned to the Roma-Ostia race in 2013 and was runner-up again, this time to Filomena Cheyech.[21] She has won the Hannover Marathon in Germany in 2018.
