Grace Loibach Nawowuna

Grace Loibach Nawowuna is a Kenyan track and field athlete who competes as a long-distance runner.

Career From Elgeyo Marakwet, Loibach won the women’s senior 10 km race at the Kenyan Cross Country national trials on her senior race debut in December 2022.

She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst in February 2023. She finished fourth in the women’s race, clocking a 34:13 minute run. She won the gold medal as part of the successful Kenyan team ranking.

In June 2023 she ran the eighth fastest 10,000m time of all time in her debut at the distance, running 29:47.08 to finish runner-up to Sifan Hassan in Hengelo.

In April 2025, she was runner up to Gela Hambese at the Boston 5K in Massachusetts, finishing second in a spurt finish ahead of Taylor Roe.