Kipyegon bed

Kipyegon bed
Kipyegon bed 2017
nation	Kenya
birthday	1st February 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Kenya
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	1: 43.76 min
status	blocked
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
World championships bronze London 2017 800 m  Junior World Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2016 800 m  Youth World Championships silver Cali 2015 800 m
last change: November 26, 2018

Kipyegon Bett (born February 1, 1998 ) is a Kenyan athlete who specializes in the 800-meter run .

Athletic career

Kipyegon Bett gained his first international experience at the African Youth Championships in Mauritius , where he won the gold medal in 1: 51.67 minutes. At the youth world championships in Cali , Colombia , he won the silver medal over 800 meters in 1: 47.14 minutes. He also won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia in 1: 46.15 min. A year later he became world champion at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz in a time of 1: 44.95 min.

In 2017 he took second place with the Kenyan 4 x 800 meter relay at the World Relays in the Bahamas . During the outdoor season he qualified to participate in the World Championships in London . There, on August 8, 2017, Bett secured the bronze medal in 1: 45.21 minutes in the final .

doping

In 2018, Bett tested positive for Epo . He also missed a doping control and was therefore temporarily banned. In November, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the World Athletics Federation (IAAF) assessed a four-year doping ban from August 15, 2018 to August 14, 2022. Its results were retroactively canceled from February 24, 2018, including all starts at the Diamond League meetings .

Top performances

• 800 meters: 1: 43.76 min, September 3, 2016 in Berlin

Web links

• Kipyegon bed in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WM: Bosse is the new boss over 800 meters ( German ) HDsports.at. August 9, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
2. ↑ World 800m bronze medalist Kipyegon bed tests positive for EPO
3. ↑ Kipyegon bed temporarily locked
4. ↑ ^{a b} Pamela Lechner: Flash News of the Day - Four years of doping ban for Kipyegon bed  ( 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 24, 2018, accessed November 26, 2018