Jacob Krop (born 4 June 2001) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.

Career

Krop ran

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in 13:14.44, his personal best, in

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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 betw ...

in Doha. He competed at the

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and won a silver medal in the men's 5000 metres event.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Krop, Jacob Kenyan male long-distance runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Kenya 2001 births Living people People from West Pokot County 21st-century Kenyan people