KIPLIMO Jacob

Olympic Games

Year	Location	5000m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Round 1 (13:30.40)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	5000m
2017	London, GBR	Heats (13:30.92)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	3000m	5000m
2020	1 x 1st	-
2018	-	1 x 6th
2017	1 x 7th	1 x 12th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2020	3000m	Rome, ITA	7:26.64
6	2018	5000m	Stockholm, SWE	13:19.66
7	2017	3000m	Doha, QAT	7:43.73
12	2017	5000m	Eugene, OR, USA	13:13.64

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2021	10,000m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Ostrava, CZE	26:33.93
1	2020	5000m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Ostrava, CZE	12:48.63

World Cross Country Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Team Cross Country Long Distance	2019	Aarhus, DEN	20
2	Individual Cross Country Long Distance	2019	Aarhus, DEN	31:44

World Half Marathon Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Half Marathon	2020	Gdynia, POL	58:49
3	Half Marathon Team	2020	Gdynia, POL	2:58.39

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	5000m	10,000m
2018	Tampere, FIN	6th (13:23.35)	2nd (27:40.36)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Athlete

English

Atletica Casone Noceto [Italy]

Iacopo Brasi [personal], ITA

His three step-brothers Robert Chemonges, Oscar Chelimo and Victor Kiplagat have all competed in long-distance running for Uganda. (worldathletics.org, 23 Oct 2020; newvision.co.ug, 09 Jun 2017; kawowo.com, 10 Aug 2016)

He developed a pain beneath his knee after the 2019 Great Manchester Run event in England which then ruled him out for four months. (kawowo.com, 18 Dec 2020)

He was influenced to take up running by his four older brothers. "To myself, I said 'I want to be like them.'" As a child he would run up to eight kilometres to and from school each day. (worldathletics.org, 23 Oct 2020; eagle.co.ug, 21 Jul 2016)

To break the 10,000m world record. (iaaf.org, 20 Jan 2019)

Ugandan long-distance runner Stephen Kiprotich. (linkme.co.ug, 24 Jul 2016)

He became the first Ugandan athlete to win an individual medal at the World Half-Marathon Championships when he won gold at the 2020 Championships in Gdynia, Poland. (SportsDeskOnline, 19 Oct 2020; tokyo2020.org, 19 Oct 2020)