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Tirop bags back-to-back bronze in 10,000m race

By The Standard | Sep. 30, 2019

**Agnes Tirop won her second successive world bronze** (Photo: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP)

Kenya’s Agnes Tirop claimed her second successive world bronze as Kenyans lost the 10,000m battle to Sifan Hassan on Saturday night at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Under sweltering heat on Saturday night, all the protagonists led by Hellen Obiri, Tirop and Hassan of The Netherlands were happy to bide their time towards the back of the field as German Alina Reh took the field through 3000m in 9:29.69.

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