Victor Kiplangat

{{short description|Ugandan mountain runner}}

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| caption = Kiplangat at the 2023 World Athletics Championships

| nationality = Ugandan

| sport = Athletics
Mountain running

| event = Cross-country running

| club = U.S. Quercia Trentingrana

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• 3000 m: 8:11.69 (2017)

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{{Medal|Sport|Men's athletics}}

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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2023 Budapest|Marathon}}

{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalGold|2022 Birmingham|Marathon}}

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{{MedalGold|2017 Premana|Men's race (13 km)}}

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Victor Kiplangat (born 10 November 1999) is a Ugandan marathon runner, who became world champion in 2023. He won the World Mountain Running Championships in 2017 as a teenager.{{cite web|url=http://www.wmra.ch/index.php/results/world-trophy-championships|title=World Trophy (1991-2008)/World Championships (2009 on)|publisher=wmra.ch|access-date=23 October 2017}}

In 2022 he won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in the men's marathon event, despite taking a wrong turn close to the end of the course.{{cite news |title=Marathon - Men's Marathon |work=BBC Sport |date=30 July 2022 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/62360812 |access-date=30 July 2022}}{{cite news |title=Commonwealth Games 2022: Victor Kiplangat wins marathon despite going wrong way |work=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/commonwealth-games/62362793 |access-date=1 August 2022}} On August 27, 2023 he won the marathon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.