David Rudisha

David Rudisha
David Rudisha at the 2011 World Championships
Full name	David Lekuta Rudisha
nation	Kenya
birthday	17th December 1988
place of birth	Kilgoris ,  Kenya
size	190 cm
Weight	71 kg
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	1: 40.91 min
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × African Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold London 2012 800 m gold Rio de Jainero 2016 800 m  World championships gold Daegu 2011 800 m gold Beijing 2015 800 m  African Championships gold Addis Ababa 2008 800 m gold Nairobi 2010 800 m  Commonwealth Games silver Glasgow 2014 800 m  Junior World Championships gold Beijing 2006 800 m
last change: August 16, 2016

David Lekuta Rudisha (born December 17, 1988 in Kilgoris , Rift Valley ) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800-meter run . On this route he was two-time Olympic and world champion and has held the world record since August 2010.

Career

Internationally, Rudisha made his first appearance at the 2006 Junior World Championships in Beijing when he won the 800-meter run. He repeated this triumph a year later at the Junior African Athletics Championships. In 2007 he established himself impressively in the adult sector with victories at Weltklasse Zürich and the Memorial Van Damme .

At the African Championships in Addis Ababa in 2008 , Rudisha won again in 1: 44.20 minutes and set a new championship record. In contrast, he narrowly missed the finals at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin . A short time later, on September 6, 2009, he ran the 800 m in 1: 42.01 min at the athletics meeting in Rieti . In doing so, he broke the 25-year-old African record of his compatriot Sammy Koskei and placed fourth on the all-time world best list. The following week he won the 800-meter run at the world finals in Thessaloniki .

On July 10, 2010, Rudisha ran a new personal best over the 800 m in Heusden-Zolder with 1: 41.51 min. As the fourth runner in history after Wilson Kipketer , Sebastian Coe and Joaquim Cruz , he undercut the 1: 42-minute mark and took second place behind Kipketer on the all-time world best list. Almost three weeks later, Rudisha successfully defended his 800-meter title at the African Championships in Nairobi and improved his own championship record by over a second to 1: 42.84 min. On August 22nd, 2010 Rudisha ran a new world record at the ISTAF in Berlin. With a time of 1: 41.09 min, he improved Wilson Kipketer's old world record, which had existed for almost 13 years, by 2 hundredths of a second. Just a week later, Rudisha increased the mark in Rieti to 1: 41.01 min.

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , South Korea , he won his parade route in 1: 43.91 minutes ahead of indoor world champion Abubaker Kaki from Sudan and former Olympic champion Juri Borsakowski from Russia. The following year, Rudisha won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London in a new world record time of 1: 40.91 minutes. He had to cancel the 2013 World Championships due to a knee injury.

At the end of May 2014, Rudisha contested his first race at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene after an almost one year injury break and only finished seventh. At the beginning of July, when he won the Glasgow Grand Prix, he set the world best of the year with a time of 1: 43.34 minutes. Two weeks later he lost it at the Herculis in Monaco to Nijel Amos from Botswana, who won the race in 1: 42.45 min, while Rudisha was fifth in 1: 42.98 min. At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow he won the silver medal, but had to admit defeat Amos for the third time in the season.

His first big title win after the injury break was the victory in 1: 45.84 min at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing ahead of the 2014 European champion , Adam Kszczot from Poland, and the world's best of the year Amel Tuka from Bosnia. As part of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he again won the gold medal in the 800-meter run.

Others

David Rudisha is the first Olympic champion from the Maasai ethnic group . This is remarkable in that the vast majority of successful Kenyan athletes are of the Kalendjin ethnic group . David Rudisha's father Daniel Rudisha won the silver medal at the 1968 Olympic Games with the Kenyan 4 x 400 meter relay .

Rudisha has been training in Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg since 2010 during the summer months . However, in 2014 he preferred to play his European competitions from England.

Top performances

• 400 m : 45.15 s, May 3, 2013, Nairobi
• 500 m: 57.69 s, 10 September 2016, Newcastle
• 600 m: 1: 13.10 min, 5th June 2016, Birmingham
• 800 m : 1: 40.91 min, August 9, 2012, London
• 1000 m : 2: 19.43 min, June 28, 2017, Ostrava

World records

500 m

Time (s)	date	event	place	country
57.69	09/10/2016	Great North CityGames	Newcastle	United Kingdom

800 m

Time (min)	date	event	place	country
1: 41.09	08/22/2010	International Stadium Festival Berlin	Berlin	Germany
1: 41.01	08/29/2010	Meeting Internazionale Città di Rieti	Rieti	Italy
1: 40.91	08/09/2012	Olympic games	London	United Kingdom

Web links

Commons : David Rudisha  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• David Rudisha in the database of World Athletics (English)
• IAAF: Focus on Athletes - David Lekuta Rudisha , May 1st, 2008
• IAAF: Rudisha: Following in the footsteps of Konchellah and Kipketer? ( Memento of January 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , September 13, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} telegraph.com: Profile of David Rudisha 2012
2. ↑ World record holder Rudisha says World Cup injured from sportal.de, July 16, 2013, accessed on September 9, 2013
3. ^ Joe Battaglia: Rudisha and Kiprop conquered in Eugene ( English ) IAAF. July 1, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
4. ↑ Mike Rowbottom: Kiplagat shows his class with 3: 27.64 in Monaco ( English ) IAAF. July 18, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
5. ↑ Chris Broadbent: Amos defeats Rudisha over 800m at the Commonwealth Games ( English ) IAAF. July 31, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
6. ↑ Raidió Teilifís Éireann: Kenya's David Rudisha wins 800m gold in world record time (English), August 9, 2012
7. ^ The Atlantic: Why Kenyans Make Such Great Runners: A Story of Genes and Cultures , April 17, 2012
8. ↑ Cheers for David Rudisha in Tübingen Leichtathletik.de, August 17, 2012, accessed on August 17, 2012
9. ↑ 800 meter world champion Rudisha trained in Tübingen tagblatt.de, August 31, 2011, accessed on August 17, 2012
10. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2014/sep/12/david-rudisha-800m-running-exciting-interview