Ezekiel Kemboi

Ezekiel Kemboi
Ezekiel Kemboi during his 2009 World Cup victory in Berlin
Full name	Ezekiel Kemboi Cheboi
nation	Kenya
birthday	May 25, 1982
place of birth	Matira
size	165 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
Best performance	7: 55.76 min
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 0 × World championships 4 × 3 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 1 × 2 × 0 × African Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 2004 Athens 3000 m H. gold 2012 London 3000 m H.  World championships silver 2003 Paris 3000 m H. silver 2005 Helsinki 3000 m H. silver 2007 Osaka 3000 m H. gold 2009 Berlin 3000 m H. gold 2011 Daegu 3000 m H. gold 2013 Moscow 3000 m H. gold 2015 Beijing 3000 m H.  Commonwealth Games silver 2002 Manchester 3000 m H. gold 2006 Melbourne 3000 m H. silver 2010 Delhi 3000 m H.  African Championships bronze 2014 Marrakech 3000 m H.
last change: August 30, 2015

Ezekiel Kemboi ( Ezekiel Kemboi Cheboi ; born May 25, 1982 in Matira near Kapsowar , Marakwet ) is a Kenyan obstacle runner . He is a two-time Olympic champion and four-time world champion in his discipline.

biography

Kemboi only got into athletics after finishing school. In 2001 he became the African junior champion even though he fell during the race. In 2002 he finished second at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester . At the African Championships in the same year he was initially fourth, but later received the bronze medal after the Moroccan Brahim Boulami was banned for a doping offense .

At the 2003 World Athletics Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis, Kemboi fought a thrilling duel with his former compatriot Saif Saaeed Shaheen . Shortly before the finish, Shaheen, now starting for Qatar, pulled away and won by less than a second.

The Kenyan Olympic Committee refused to lift the three-year blocking period after Shaheen's nationality change, so that Shaheen was not allowed to participate in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Kemboi was therefore traded as the main favorite for victory. He fulfilled the high expectations and won ahead of his compatriots Brimin Kiprop Kipruto and Paul Kipsiele Koech .

A year later, at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , he was beaten again by Shaheen and won the silver medal. He also won silver at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, this time behind Brimin Kiprop Kipruto. After finishing seventh at the 2008 Olympic Games , he won his second major title in 2009, becoming world champion in Berlin . In 2011 Kemboi defended this title at the World Championships in Daegu and won the gold medal with a time of 8: 14.85 minutes ahead of his compatriot Brimin Kipruto .

He also won gold at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Kemboi won in 8: 18.56 minutes ahead of Frenchman Mahiedine Mekhissi . In 2013 in Moscow he again won the world title in the 3000 m obstacle course. He won the bronze medal at the 2014 African Championships in Marrakech . In 2015 he became world champion for the fourth time in Beijing .

At the Olympic Games in 2016 he was initially third. After a protest by the French Athletics Federation, however, he was disqualified because he had left the track towards the end of the race.

With two Olympic gold medals, four World Championship titles and another three World Championship silver medals, he is one of the most successful runners of modern times.

Ezekiel Kemboi is 1.65 m tall and has a competition weight of 55 kg.

Personal best

• 1500 m : 3: 40.8 min, April 24, 2004, Kisumu
• 3000 m : 7: 44.24 min, September 9, 2012, Rieti
• 5000 m : 13: 50.61 min, September 25, 2011, Sulmona
• 10 km road run : 28:32 min, August 7, 2010, Bianco
• 3000 m obstacle course: 7: 55.76 min, July 22, 2011, Monaco

Web links

• Ezekiel Kemboi in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes ( Memento from June 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), August 23, 2007