Lamech Mosotoi Mokono (born April 7, 1981)[1] is a long-distance runner from Kenya who was a member of the team that won gold at the World Athletics 2008 Half Marathon Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

[3][4] Mokono, 5-foot-11, 128 pounds,[5] faced stiff competition in his third marathon race in on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota.

[5] He was the eighth Kenyan to win the race, and he did so while wearing bib number 6, which was also worn by the 2007 winner Wesley Ngetich,[7] who had been shot with a poison arrow and killed after he returned to Kenya amidst political unrest.

[8][9][10] In 2008 Mokono ran ten races, including the Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon earlier in January, where he placed fifth behind winner Michael Aish.

The Kenyan men's team (which included Patrick Makau Musyoki, who took second, Stephen Kipkoech Kibiwott, Joseph Maregu, and Mekubo Mogusu) took the gold, with Mokono finishing in 1:08:49.