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Key facts
- Full name
- Kipchoge Hezekieh Keino
- Born
- ( 1940-01-17 ) 17 January 1940 (age 86) , Kipsamo, Nandi, Rift Valley, Kenya
- Height
- 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
- Weight
- 66 kg (146 lb)
- Spouse
- Phyllis Keino
- Olympic finals
- 1964 Tokyo , 5000 m, 5th , 1500 m, 10th, 1968 Mexico City , 10,000 m, DNF, 5000 m, Silver , 1500 m, Gold , 1972 Munich , 3000 m steeple, Gold , 1500 m, Silver
- Personal bests
- 800 m : 1:46.41 ( Munich 1972 ) 1500 m : 3:34.91 ( Mexico City 1968 ) Mile : 3:53.1 ( Kisumu 1967) 3000 m : 7:39.6 ( Helsingborg 1965) 5000 m : 13:24.2 ( Auckland 1965) 10,000 m : 28:06.4 ( Leningrad 1968) 3000 m steeple : 8:23.64 (Munich 1972)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kenya
- Place of birth
- Nandi County
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1964 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Kenya
- Mass
- 66
- Image
- 14-01-10-tbh-012-kipchoge-keino.jpg
- Height
- 173
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- Commons category
- Kipchoge Keino
- date of birth
- 1940-01-17
- member of
- International Olympic Committee
- sports discipline competed in
- middle-distance running
- name in native language
- Kipchoge Hezekieh Keino
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- end of work period
- 1971-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Updated on 10 June 2015
Kipchoge Hezekiah Keino is a retired Kenyan track and field athlete. He was the chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee (KOC) until 29 September 2017. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Keino was among the first in a long line of successful middle and long distance runners to come from the country and has helped and inspired many of his countrymen and women to become the athletics force that they are today. In 2000, he became an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In 2012, he was one of 24 athletes inducted as inaugural members of the IAAF Hall of Fame.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kip Keino” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.