Boniface Toroitich Kiprop (born 12 October 1985 in Kapchorwa District) is a

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from

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. His older brother Martin Toroitich is also a runner, who has featured at the

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. Boniface Kiprop is coached by Giuseppe Giambrone and he is actually making part of the Tuscany Training Camp project.

Career

At the 2001 African Junior Championships in

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, he competed in the 5000 and 10000 metres, finishing 1st and 2nd respectively. Two years later the championships were held in

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, and he won both events. At the

2003 All-Africa Games The 8th All Africa Games were 5–17 October 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria. 53 countries participated in 23 sports. The main venue was the newly constructed Abuja Stadium. The organizing committee was headed by Nigerian Amos Adamu. Venues * Moshood ...

he finished 4th in 10000 metres and 6th in 5000 metres. At the 2003 World Championships in

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he missed the 5000 metres final. However, he won a bronze medal in the 10,000 m at the

2003 Afro-Asian Games The 2003 Afro-Asian Games, officially known as the First Afro-Asian Games or I Afro-Asian Games and unofficially known as the Inaugural Afro-Asian Games, was a major international multi-sport sporting event, event held in Hyderabad, India, from ...

. At the

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in Grosseto,

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, he won the 10000 metres race and was 5th in 5000 metres. He competed at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

for his native African country. There he finished fourth in the final of the 10,000 metres. He again finished fourth at the 2005 World Championships, but won a silver medal over 5000 metres at the

3rd IAAF World Athletics Final The 3rd IAAF World Athletics Final was held at the Stade Louis II, in Monte Carlo, Monaco on September 9, and September 10, 2005. The hammer throw event for men and women had to take place in Szombathely, Hungary on September 3 as the Monaco sta ...

. In 2006 he won the 10,000 metres race at the

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

. In August 2004 he set a new 10000 metres World Junior Record, 27:04.00 at the

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meeting in Brussels. The record was broken by Samuel Wanjiru at the same meeting the next year.IAAF, November 17, 2009
World Records ratified
/ref> Kiprop also holds Ugandan records in 3000, 5000 and 10000 metres. At the

2007 All-Africa Games The 9th All-Africa Games took place between 11 and 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there. Besides Algeria, only Nige ...

he was fifth in 10000 metres. He finished 10th at 10000 metres at the 2007 World Championships.

References

External links

* *IAAF, August 25, 2007
Focus on Africa - Boniface Kiprop Toroitich (UGA)
1985 births Living people Ugandan male long-distance runners Olympic male long-distance runners Olympic athletes of Uganda Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Uganda Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games African Games competitors for Uganda Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 All-Africa Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 All-Africa Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Uganda People from Kapchorwa District {{Uganda-athletics-bio-stub