- Kipkoech Cheruiyot
Kipkoech ("Kip") Cheruiyot (born
December 02 ,1964 ) is a retired middle distance runner fromKenya .At the 1982 African Championships, he won 1500 metres gold medal, leaving the famous
Saïd Aouita to second place [gbrathletics.com: [http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/afc.htm "African Championships"] ] . Cheruiyot was then slightly less than 18 years old.In 1983, he broke the world junior record at men's 1500 metres by running 3:34.92 in
Munich [IAAF : [http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/textfiles/season=0/gender=M/inout=O/ageGroup=J/legal=A/discipline=1500/textfile.txt "World Outdoor Lists 1500 Metres All Time Junior MEN"] ] .He represented Kenya at the Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics and finished 7th in the men's 1500 metres race, which was won by his compatriot
Peter Rono . At the 1987 World championships, he was 11th in the 1500 metres final [Sports and Elections Statistics: [http://www.todor66.com/athletics/world/1987/Men_1500m.html "Men 1500m World Championship Rome 1987 - Sunday 06.09"] ] . At the1984 Summer Olympics , he failed to reach the semifinals [TIME : [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954328,00.html "Monday, Aug. 20, 1984"] ]He was gold medalist at the
1989 Summer Universiade [gbrathletics.com: [http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wsgm.htm "World Student Games (Universiade - Men)"] ] . At the time he was based at a university inUnited States .His twin brother
Charles Cheruiyot is also a former athlete.References
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