Lydia Kurgat (born 1976) is a Kenyan long distance runner who specialises in marathon running.
She was the 2002 winner of the VTM Telecomloop 15 km race in the Netherlands,[2] then won the Trierer Stadtlauf in Germany in 2003.
On her second outing that year, she won the Great Lakes Marathon in Kenya with a personal best and course record of 2:40:45 hours.
[5] Kurgat won the Bonn Marathon the year after then repeated as the Eindhoven champion,[6] where she significantly improved her best to 2:33:39 hours and had a winning margin of over three minutes.
[6] She aimed to make it three successive wins at the Eindhoven race that same year, but lost to fellow Kenyan Beata Naigambo, although her time of 2:31:26 hours as the runner-up was a new best.