Japhet Kipyegon Korir is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in cross country running competitions and the 5000 metres.
Education
He was part of the winning Kenyan junior team at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where he finished fifth, and helped retain that title at the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where he came third as part of Kenyan podium sweep.
Career
He has a personal best of 13:11.44 minutes for the 5000 m track event. He was the runner-up at the latter event in 2012. He ran in Europe later that year and set a personal best of 13:17.18 minutes for the 5000 m at the Nijmegen Global Athletics meeting.
The IAAF World Cross Country Championships changed to a biennial format so was not held and Korir instead competed in the junior section of the 2012 African Cross Country Championships, placing a narrow second behind Ethiopia"s Muktar Edris.
He failed to make the Kenyan team for the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics in June, having been hurt by a competitor"s track spikes, and missed the rest of the season due to an Achilles tendon injury. In Korir"s first year as a senior athlete he placed sixth at the Kenyan Cross Country Championships and the selectors, seeing he had recovered from injury, made a last minute decision to add him to the Kenyan team
Following this success he set his sights on competing at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics. His form dropped in May, however, as he came last in the 3000 metres at the Doha Diamond League meeting, then managed only 17th place at the World 10K Bangalore race.
Korir missed the rest of the 2013 track season.
Korir also moved up to compete in the half marathon, finishing in 7th place at the cost per click Loop Den Haag in a time of 1:02:41 hours. 3000 metres: 7:40.37 minimum (2012)
5000 metres (indoors): 13:11.44 minimum (2012)
5000 metres (outdoors): 13:17.18 minimum (2011)
10K run: 27:52 minimum (2013.