Kipchoge Keino

Kipchoge Keino
Kipchoge Keino 2014
nation	Kenya
birthday	January 17, 1940
place of birth	Kipsamo , Nandi County
size	173 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance running , long distance running , steeplechase
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 2 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 3 × 0 × 1 × Pan-African Games 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Mexico City 1968 1500 m silver Mexico City 1968 5000 m gold Munich 1972 3000 m obstacle silver Munich 1972 1500 m  Commonwealth Games gold Kingston 1966 1 mile gold Kingston 1966 3 miles gold Edinburgh 1970 1500 m bronze Edinburgh 1970 5000 m  Africa Games gold Brazzaville 1965 1500 m gold Brazzaville 1965 5000 m silver Lagos 1973 1500 m

Kipchoge Keino ( Kipchoge Hezekiah "Kip" Keino; ) (born January 17, 1940 in Kipsamo , Nandi County ) is a former Kenyan athlete who was twice Olympic champion and initiated the dominance of his country in medium-distance , long-distance and obstacle course .

Keino, who comes from the Nandi ethnic group , was the first Kenyan athlete to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated (September 30, 1968). Since his home is 1,800 meters above sea level, he is considered the inventor of high-altitude training; He trained in this environment and, with his experience, helped develop altitude training as a technique to improve running times at any altitude.

Career

Keino caught international attention when he set the Kenyan record over the mile in 1962. In Tokyo in 1964 , Keino ran for his country, which first competed in the Olympic Games as an independent nation, and finished fifth in the 5,000-meter run . In the following year he ran two world records: over 3000 meters in a time of 7: 39.6 minutes and over 5000 meters in a time of 13: 24.2 minutes. It was the first ever world record for an African runner.

At the first Pan-African Games , which were held in Brazzaville in 1965, he won the 1,500 and 5,000 meter runs, and in 1966 he won the one-mile and three-mile runs at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston .

He achieved his greatest successes in the following years and thus achieved the highest international recognition: At the Olympic Games in 1968 in Mexico City, he won the 1,500-meter run in the Olympic record time of 3: 34.9 minutes, even though his taxi was stuck in traffic got stuck and had to walk the last kilometer to the stadium. The record lasted until 1984. Sick of a serious infection, he had already won the silver medal over 5000 meters.

At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Keino won his second gold medal, this time over 3000 meters obstacle and his second silver medal, this time over 1500 meters.

Kipchoge Keino is one of the great legends in running . In the "eternal" world best list, he advanced to the following positions at various points in his career: 800 m (54); 1500 m (2); 1 mile (2); 2000 m (11); 3000 m (1); 2 miles (2); 5000 m (1); 10,000 m (3); 3000 m obstacle (7).

Kip Keino ended his international running career in 1973. Since then, he and his wife Phyllis have devoted himself to a charity he founded to look after Kenyan orphans. He remains connected to running in his native Kenya and is the President of the National Olympic Committee.

Olympic scandal

In the scandal about missing funds and equipment for Kenya's Olympic team in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro , the prosecution dropped the charges against Keino, and he is now, as his lawyer announced on November 16, 2018, to testify as a key witness in the trial. In October 2018, Keino and six other officials were charged with embezzlement, as the group around him is said to have diverted the equivalent of around half a million euros from the government fund to support Kenya's Olympic participants.

Best times

• 800 m : 1: 46.41 min, August 23, 1972, Munich
• 1500 m: 3: 34.91 min, October 20, 1968, Mexico City
• 1 mile : 3: 53.1 min, September 10, 1967, Kisumu
• 2000 m : 5: 05.2 min, September 26, 1970, Leicester
• 3000 m : 7: 39.6 min, August 27, 1965, Hälsingborg
• 2 miles: 8: 25.2 min, December 19, 1965, Sydney
• 5000 m: 13: 24.2 min, November 30, 1965, Auckland
• 10,000 m : 28: 06.4 min, July 21, 1968, Leningrad
• 3000 m obstacle: 8: 23.64 min, September 4th 1972, Munich

Awards

• In 1987, Keino was named Athlete of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine, along with active athletes , after the group got involved in a charitable initiative.
• In 2012 he was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame .
• During the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Keino received the first ever Olympic Laurel Award from the International Olympic Committee , which honors athletes for their social commitment.

Web links

Commons : Kipchoge Keino  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kipchoge Keino in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ^ Mexico: The Problem Olympics. SI Cover History: Sept. 27 – Oct. 3. In: Sports Illustrated . Archived from the original on October 4, 2009 ; Retrieved December 16, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Simon Filler: Sports in Kenya: Facts & Figures. ETH Studio Basel, March 6, 2008, accessed on December 16, 2013 . 
3. ↑ The hungry win . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1995 ( online ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Silke Bernhart: Flash news of the day - Olympic scandal: Kip Keino becomes a witness from the accused  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, November 20, 2018, accessed November 21, 2018