Ondoro Osoro (born 3 December 1967) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who competed mostly in cross country and road races.

A serious car accident in 1995 left him unable to compete for two years, but he returned to action with a world record for the 10-mile (16 km) run in late 1997.

He was picked for the Kenyan Olympic team at the 2000 Sydney Games, but was shot in the neck during a carjacking in Kenya a month before the competition.

[1][2][3] He was the inaugural winner of the IAAF World Cross Challenge series that year and was runner-up to Fita Bayisa in the following season's competition.

[8] He ran on the European track circuit and greatly improved his 5000 m best, running a time of 13:25.79 minutes at the Bislett Games in Oslo.

[5] He ended the year with a win at the Cross Internacional de la Constitución and a third title at the San Silvestre Vallecana.

Although three other men had previously run faster, all had done so on the assisted Dam tot Damloop course in Zaandam, thus making Osoro the official record holder for the distance.

[16] In May 1998 he won the 20 km of Brussels and the next month he travelled to the United States, winning the Orange Classic 10K and running a career best of 43:00 minutes for 15K for second place at the Utica Boilermaker.

Osoro was hospitalised for eight weeks and visited neurologists in London – nerve damage had left him temporarily unable to move his arm and leg on the right side of his body.

[19] He ran at the Honolulu Marathon in December, coming in third in a Kenyan sweep of the top three alongside Mbarak Hussein and Jimmy Muindi.

[27] He was among the favourites for the Frankfurt Marathon in October of that year, although a heavy fall mid-race saw him fade to ninth place with a time of 2:15:11, crossing the line with a bloodied hip.