Amos Kipruto

Amos Kipruto (born 16 September 1992) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Kipruto took victory at the 2022 London Marathon.

Career In 2016, he won the Rome Marathon, and then the Seoul Marathon a year later.

Kipruto represented Kenya at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

He came second at the postponed 2021 Tokyo Marathon in March 2022 in a personal best of 2:03:13, behind only Eliud Kipchoge, who ran 2:02:40. Kipruto secured the biggest win of his career up to that point by winning the 2022 London Marathon held in October with a time of 2:04:39.

Kipruto finished fourth in the 2026 London Marathon in 2:01:39, a personal best and an improvement of three minutes from his winning time in 2022. This performance, the joint-seventh-fastest marathon ever, made him the sixth-fastest male marathoner of all time.

Achievements

International competitions Source:

Personal bests 10 kilometres – 28:37 (Bolzano 2019) Half marathon – 1:00:24 (Gothenburg 2017) Marathon – 2:01:39 (London 2026)