Wilson Kipketer

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Wilson Kipketer (2010) .jpg
Wilson Kipketer attending the 2010 Summer
Youth Olympic Games in Singapore

Full name Wilson Kosgei Kipketer
nation DenmarkDenmark Denmark
birthday December 12, 1972
place of birth Kapsabet ,  Kenya
size 182 cm
Weight 63 kg
Career
discipline Middle distance run
Best performance 1: 41.11 min ( 800 m )
society Sparta Athletics, KIF
status resigned
End of career 2005
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Indoor World Cup 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver Sydney 2000 1: 45.14 min
bronze Athens 2004 1: 44.65 min
IAAF logo World championships
gold Gothenburg 1995 1: 45.08 min
gold Athens 1997 1: 43.38 min
gold Seville 1999 1: 43.30 min
European championships
gold Munich 2002 1: 47.25 min
Indoor world championships
gold Paris 1997 1: 42.67 min
silver Maebashi 1999 1: 45.49 min
silver Birmingham 2003 1: 45.87 min

Wilson Kosgei Kipketer (born December 12, 1972 in Kapsabet , Nandi County ) is a former Danish middle-distance runner of Kenyan origin who was world champion three times in a row in the 800 meter run (1995 to 1999) and holds the indoor world records in 800 and 1000 meters ( Status: 2010). From 1997 to 2010 he also held the world record over 800 meters outdoors.

Life

Kipketer is one of the best 800-meter runners of all time. In 1990 he went to Denmark to study electrical engineering . At that time he started as a junior for Kenya (Junior World Championships 1990: fourth place).

From then on, Kipketer was one of the favorites at World and European Championships. He won his first world title over 800 meters at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg . He was able to successfully defend this title in Athens in 1997 and in Seville in 1999 .

Kipketer after his world record in Cologne 1997

He could not yet take part in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta because he was not yet a Danish citizen and Kenya refused to allow him to participate. In 1997 he equalized Sebastian Coe's world record (1: 41.73 min) and improved it twice to initially 1: 41.24 min and later in Cologne at the ASV meeting to 1:41:11 min. He was not beaten in any races in 1996 and 1997, and he won 28 straight wins. He was then named World Athlete of the Year , Europe's Athlete of the Year , Europe's Athlete of the Year and Denmark's Athlete of the Year . He is also represented in the Hall of Fame of Danish Sports (since 2008). In 1998 he suffered from malaria .

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 - now as a Danish citizen - he came as a favorite, but then surprisingly had to admit defeat to the German Nils Schumann . It was similar for him at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where he won the bronze medal, although he was the favorite here too. Thus one of the outstanding 800 meter runners remains without an Olympic victory.

On August 17, 2005, he announced the end of his career after he had already missed the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki . Originally, he only wanted to end his career after the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg .

During his career, Kipketer ran the 800 meters a total of 22 times under 1:43 minutes. Next to David Rudisha, he is the only runner who stayed below 1:42 minutes several times.

Wilson Kipketer has a competition weight of 63 kg with a height of 1.82 m.

Kipketer is considered a modern athlete in globalized sport, since he was born in Kenya and started for Denmark and was trained by a Polish trainer (Slawomir Nowak) mostly in St. Moritz.

Personal bests

  • 400 m: 46.85 s
  • 800 m: 1: 41.11 min
  • 1000 m: 2: 16.29 min
  • 1500 m: 3: 42.80 min
  • 1 mile: 3: 59.57 min

Awards


Gallery with pictures from Iten

  • Entrance to Iten, where Kipketer went to middle school

  • His talent for running was discovered and promoted at St. Patrick's High School

  • Stadium Iten

  • Wall of Honor for St. Patrick's High School athletes

  • A tree in honor of a former student

Web links

Commons : Wilson Kipketer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sportenshalloffame.dk/Default.aspx?ID=59 other sources wrongly mention 1970
  2. ↑ 800 meters all time. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), accessed May 4, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997). In: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change. Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, pp. 41-56; http://www.letsrun.com/2010/juantorena-coe-kipketer-rudisha-1120.php
personal data
SURNAME Kipketer, Wilson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kipketer, Wilson Kosgei (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish middle-distance runner of Kenyan origin
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Kapsabet , Kenya