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Nicholas bed (2015)
Nicholas bed, 2015

Full name Nicholas Kiplagat bed
nation KenyaKenya Kenya
birthday January 27, 1990
place of birth Kisii , Kenya
size 190 cm
Weight 75 kg
job police officer
date of death August 8, 2018
Place of death Nandi County
Career
discipline 400 meter hurdles
Best performance 47.79 s
Trainer Vincent Mumo
National squad since 2014
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
African Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
gold Beijing 2015 400 m hurdles
 African Championships
bronze Marrakech 2014 400 m hurdles
bronze Marrakech 2014 4 × 400 m
last change: June 5, 2018

Nicholas Kiplagat Bett (born January 27, 1990 in Kisii ; † August 8, 2018 in Nandi County ) was a Kenyan athlete who specialized in hurdles . In 2015 he became world champion in the 400 meter hurdles . His twin brother Aron Koech is also a successful hurdler.

life and career

In his youth, Bett first began with the 110-meter hurdles as his main discipline, but switched to the longer hurdles from 2009 after he failed to achieve success. In the following years it increased continuously and in the 2013 season it stayed under 50 seconds for the first time in the 400 meter hurdles. In 2014 he took part in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow . Although he was eliminated after the preliminary round, but aroused the interest of the South African coach Hennie Kotze , who supported him from then on. At the African Championships in Marrakech he was more successful. He won the bronze medal in the 400 meter hurdles, as well as in the 4 x 400 meter relay together with Mark Kiprotich Muttai , Solomon Odongo Buoga and Boniface Mucheru Tumuti .

In 2015, Bett advanced to the top of the world. In the Kenyan eliminations for the World Championships in Beijing, he increased his best to 48.29 seconds. In Beijing he then won the gold medal with a new national record of 47.79 s in the final ahead of the Russian Denis Kudrjawzew . With his winning time, he also sat at the top of the world's best list of the year and undercut the Kenyan record of Erick Keter by 44 hundredths of a second. In 2016, Bett initially produced rather disappointing results. In the first half of the year, his fifth place at DN Galan in Stockholm remained his best place at an international race. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he was eliminated in the preliminary stages after he was disqualified because of a hurdle error. Only at the end of the season did he find his way back to his old level of performance. At the Athletissima in Lausanne he finished second and at the Meeting de Paris he celebrated his first victory in a Diamond League race .

In 2017 he had to end the season prematurely after two starts in the Diamond League. In 2018 he again took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast , where he finished eighth in 51.00 s. With the Kenyan relay he was disqualified in the finals after the relay had come in third. Nicholas Bett died in a traffic accident in August 2018 at the age of 28.

Personal bests

  • 400 meters: 46.76 s, January 27, 2018 in Pretoria
  • 400 m hurdles: 47.79 s, August 25, 2015 in Beijing

Web links

Commons : Nicholas Bett  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cathal Dennehy: A winning bed in the 400m hurdles ( English ) IAAF. August 26, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ Phil Minshull: Report: men's 400m hurdles final - IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 ( English ) IAAF. August 25, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  3. ↑ Former athletics world champion Nicholas Bett dies in road crash , nairobinews.nation.co.ke, published and accessed on August 8, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bed, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bed, Nicholas Kiplagat (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan athlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Kisii
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2018
Place of death Nandi County