Emmaculate Anyango

Emmaculate Anyango Achol (born 2 April 2000) is a Kenyan cross country runner.

Early life
From Kericho County, she has a brother and four sisters. She is a member of the Luo people. She attended school in the Rift Valley She moved to Iten to train in athletics and began to be coached by Ken Rotich.

Career
She was U20 African Championships 3000m silver medallist in 2019 in Abidjan.

In January 2023, she won the Discovery Kenya Cross Country Championship. She won the 10,000 metres at the Meeting Gala Fernanda Ribeiro in May 2023, in Portugal.

She ran 28.57 at the 2024 10K Valencia Ibercaja in January 2024, becoming the second woman ever to run a 10km event in less than 29 minutes. Her compatriot Agnes Jebet Ngetich became the first to do so in the same race, as she broke women’s 10km world record. In February 2024, she won the Sirikwa Cross Country Classic in Eldoret.

She was runner-up to Agnes Ngetich at the Kenyan cross country trials on 2 March 2024 and was selected for the 2024 World Cross Country Championships in Serbia, where she finished fourth, winning team gold with Kenya.