Simon Kemboi

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Simon Kemboi medal table

sprinter

KenyaKenya Kenya
World championships
silver 1993 Stuttgart 4 × 400 m
African Championships
silver 1996 Yaoundé 400 m
bronze 1993 Durban 400 m

Simon Tirop Kemboi (born March 1, 1967 in Nandi ) is a former Kenyan sprinter who specialized in the 400-meter run .

Life

With the Kenyan 4 x 400 meter relay , Simon Kemboi took fifth place at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1991 . In 1992 Kemboi was Kenyan champion in the 400-meter run and reached the semifinals at the Olympic Games in Barcelona over this distance . With the season he was there in the final. However, this did not achieve the goal. The following year he finished third in the 400 m at the African Athletics Championships in Durban .

The most significant success of his career he achieved in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 in Stuttgart . Together with Kennedy Ochieng , Abednego Matilu and Samson Kitur he won in 2: 59.82 min the silver medal behind the season of the United States , which established in this race a world record (2: 54.29 min). In the 400-meter run, Ochieng finished seventh in Stuttgart.

At the 1996 African Athletics Championships in Yaoundé , he won the silver medal in the 400-meter run. In the same year he qualified with the relay for the finals at the Olympic Games in Atlanta . However, the Kenyan team had to forego a start due to injury. Kembois athletic career ended when he in advance of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone was tested.

Simon Kemboi is 1.78 m tall and had a competition weight of 74 kg.

Top performances

  • 400 m: 44.94 s, August 16, 1993, Stuttgart
  • 800 meter run : 1: 47.03 min, July 26, 1998, Mals

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. guardian.co.uk: Gold rush on after Jones rival falls , September 20, 2000