Bernard Lagat

Bernard Lagat
Lagat at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha
Full name	Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat
nation	Kenya United States (from 2005)
birthday	12th December 1974 (age 45)
place of birth	Kapsabet ,  Kenya
size	173 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance running long distance running
Best performance	3: 26.34 min ( 1500 m ) 12: 53.60 min ( 5000 m )
society	Washington State Cougars
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × World championships 2 × 3 × 1 × Indoor World Cup 3 × 2 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Sydney 2000 1500 m silver Athens 2004 1500 m  World championships silver Edmonton 2001 1500 m gold Osaka 2007 1500 m gold Osaka 2007 5000 m bronze Berlin 2009 1500 m silver Berlin 2009 5000 m silver Daegu 2011 5000 m  Indoor world championships silver Birmingham 2003 1500 m gold Budapest 2004 3000 m gold Doha 2010 3000 m gold Istanbul 2012 3000 m silver Sopot 2014 3000 m
last change: March 9, 2014

Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat (born December 12, 1974 in Kapsabet ) is an American middle and long distance runner of Kenyan origin. He was world champion over 1500 and 5000 meters and two-time Olympic medalist.

Life

Lagat attended as the previous Kenyan sports personalities Henry Rono and Mike Boit , the Washington State University until he there in 2000 in the field of Management Information Systems graduate. In 2003 he became a US citizen. Since 2004 he has also started for the USA. Lagat lives in Tucson and Tübingen with his wife and son. He is 1.73 m tall and weighs 61 kg.

Career

His first major sporting success was the victory in the 1500 meter run at the World Student Games in 1999, which also qualified him for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. There he won the bronze medal over 1500 meters behind Noah Ngeny (KEN) and Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR).

At the World Championships in Edmonton , he won silver as well as at the 2002 World Cup in Madrid and at the African Championships in Tunis . At the World Indoor Championships he won silver over 1500 meters in Birmingham in 2003 and gold over 3000 meters in Budapest in 2004 .

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he won the silver medal behind Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) and in front of Rui Silva (POR). Its start had long been questionable as it tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) in August 2003 , which resulted in a ban. Only the B-sample gave a negative result.

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka he was world champion over 1500 meters in 3: 34.77 min and over 5000 meters in 13: 45.87 min. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, however, he did not reach the final over 1500 meters and only ninth place over 5000 meters.

In 2009 he won the bronze medal over 1500 meters and the silver medal over 5000 meters at the World Championships in Berlin . In 2010 in Doha he became indoor world champion over 3000 meters for the second time. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, Lagat was only beaten by Mo Farah over 5000 meters and won the silver medal with a time of 13: 23.64 minutes.

In 2012 he defended his 3000 meter title at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul . At the Olympic Games in London, he was fourth over 5000 meters.

Personal bests

• 800 m : 1: 46.00 min, August 10, 2003, Berlin
  • Hall: 1: 47.07 min, February 20, 1999, Reno
• 1000 m : 2: 16.18 min, August 31, 2008, Gateshead
  • Hall: 2: 18.12 min, February 11, 2007, Karlsruhe
• 1500 m: 3: 26.34 min, 24 August 2001, Brussels
  • Hall: 3: 33.34 min, February 11, 2005, Fayetteville (intermediate time)
• Mileage : 3: 47.28 min, June 29, 2001, Rome
  • Hall: 3: 49.89 min, February 11, 2005, Fayetteville
• 2000 m : 4: 55.49 min, July 30, 1999, Stockholm
  • Hall: 4: 54.74 min, February 15, 2014, New York City
• 3000 m: 7: 29.00 min, August 29, 2010, Rieti
  • Hall: 7: 32.43 min, February 17, 2007, Birmingham
• 5000 m: 12: 53.60 min, July 22, 2011, Monaco
  • Hall: 13: 07.15 min, February 11, 2012, New York City
• 10 km: 27:48 min, May 10, 2015, Manchester
• Half Marathon : 1:02:00 am, Jan. 14, 2018, Houston
• Marathon : 2:12:10 h, July 7, 2019, Gold Coast

Web links

Commons : Bernard Lagat  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Bernard Lagat in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Bernard Lagat in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field (engl.)
• "Our world must be free" Interview with Leichtathletik.de, September 17, 2007
• Lagat a runner without a country ( Memento from May 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), article on the complications of changing citizenship on coolrunning.com, June 22, 2005
• Interview on mensracing.com ( Memento from April 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), November 2005