İlham Tanui Özbilen

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İlham Tanui Özbilen (center) at the Indoor World Championships 2012

İlham Tanui Özbilen (birth name William Biwott Tanui ; born March 5, 1990 in the Keiyo district ) is a Turkish middle-distance runner of Kenyan origin.

Life

He began some serious running training in November 2006 in his senior year of Simotwo High School in hopes of earning a scholarship to the United States. Although this did not materialize, his father assured him that he would support him for two years in his attempt to become a professional runner.

In 2008 he just missed a starting place for the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz .

In his first international season in 2009, on July 3, he set a junior world record in the mile run with 3: 49.29 min and improved over 1500 meters to 3: 31.70 min.

On September 4th, 2009 he was part of a Kenyan quartet (Tanui, Gideon Gathimba , Geoffrey Kipkoech Rono , Augustine Kiprono Choge ), which in Brussels set the 32-year-old world record of the Germans Karl Fleschen , Thomas Wessinghage , Harald Hudak and Michael Lederer broke in the 4 x 1,500 meter relay race .

In June 2011 he took on Turkish citizenship. On his first start for his new home country, he won silver over 1500 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul in 2012 .

In March 2013 he won the silver medal in the 1,500-meter run at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden .

Personal bests

  • 800 m : 1: 44.25 min, August 6, 2011, Ninove
  • 1000 m : 2: 17.08 min, May 31, 2011, Ostrava
  • 1500 m: 3: 31.37 min, September 13, 2011, Zagreb
    • Hall: 3: 34.76 min, February 12, 2012, Karlsruhe
  • 1 mile: 3: 49.29 min, July 3, 2009, Oslo
  • 3000 m (hall): 7: 50.61 min, February 18, 2012, Istanbul

Web links

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Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: After World Junior Mile record, Biwott now means business - ÅF Golden League ( Memento from July 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). July 6, 2009
  2. ^ IAAF: Oldest World record goes down in Brussels as Kenya dominates 4x1500 - ÅF Golden League ( Memento from September 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). September 4, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Özbilen, İlham Tanui
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanui, William Biwott (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish middle-distance runner of Kenyan origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Keiyo District