Silas Kiplagat
Silas Kiplagat 
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| birthday | August 20, 1989 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Marakwet District , Kenya | ||||||||||||
| size | 170 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||||||
| Best performance | 3: 27.64 min | ||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||
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| last change: July 18, 2014 | |||||||||||||
Silas Kiplagat (born August 20, 1989 in Marakwet District ) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specializes in the 1,500-meter run .
Life
Kiplagat was born the third of six children in Siboh Village, Tot Division, Marakwet District. He was an avid soccer player during his school years, which he graduated from Chebara High School in 2007 . After the riots in Kenya in 2007/2008 , he started running. He was supported by his friend and neighbor Sammy Kirop Kitwara . His trainer Moses Kiptanui advised Kiplagat, who actually wanted to be a long-distance runner like Kitwara, to concentrate on the middle-distance.
Kiplagat showed promising approaches as early as 2009. In a 1500 meter race in Eldoret, he beat Olympian Nicholas Kemboi and the later cross-country world champion Joseph Ebuya . After missing the Kenyan Championships due to injury, he finished second in the 10-kilometer run as part of the Tilburg Ten Miles in 28:00 min. Shortly afterwards he supported his training partner Kitwara as a pacemaker at the Rotterdam Half Marathon , who won the race in 58:58 minutes.
Kiplagat opened 2010 with starts in cross-country races to improve his stamina for the medium-distance season. At the Kenyan Cross Country Championships in February, he finished 17th. Shortly thereafter, he finished tenth in the World's Best 10K in Puerto Rico. In June he ran at the Kenyan championships in the 1500 meter run to second place behind Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop . There he was also noticed by the Italian manager Gianni Demadonna , who accepted him into his racing team. Kiplagat then completed his first 1500 meter race in Europe at the Herculis in Monaco, where he surprised the professional world with a world best for the year of 3: 29.27 minutes. At the African Championships in Nairobi , he came fourth over the same distance. Shortly afterwards he won the ISTAF Berlin and the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi .
At the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, he won the silver medal behind his compatriot Asbel Kiprop in 3: 35.92 minutes . In 2012 he was sixth in the 1500 m World Indoor Championships in Istanbul and seventh at the Olympic Games in London , and in 2013 he was sixth at the World Championships in Moscow .
In 2014, Kiplagat won the 1500 meter races at the Golden Gala in Rome and the Glasgow Grand Prix . At the Herculis in Monaco he won in 3: 27.64 minutes and thus moved up to fourth place in the all-time world best list.
Silas Kiplagat is 1.70 m tall and weighs 57 kg.
Top performances
- 1500 m: 3: 27.64 min, July 18, 2014, Monaco
- Hall: 3: 35.26 min, February 14, 2012, Liévin
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1 mile : 3: 47.88 min, May 31, 2014 Eugene
- Hall: 3: 52.63 min, February 11, 2012, Fayetteville
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3000 m : 7: 39.94 min, September 9, 2010, Milan
- Hall: 7: 41.02 min, February 4, 2012, Boston
- 10 km road run : 28:00 min, September 6, 2009, Tilburg
Web links
- Silas Kiplagat in the database of World Athletics (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kiplagat shows his class with 3: 27.64 in Monaco - IAAF Diamond League ( English ) IAAF. July 18, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
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| SURNAME | Kiplagat, Silas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan middle distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marakwet District |