Wilfred Bungei
Bungei at the 2007 Osaka World Championships. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Birth name | Wilfred Kipkemboi Bungei | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Kenya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1980-07-24) 24 July 1980 (age 43) Kabirirsang, Kenya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 800 metres | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wilfred Kipkemboi Bungei (born 24 July 1980) is a Kenyan retired Middle-distance runner, who won the 800 m gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[1] He also won at the World indoor Championships in Moscow 2006 the 800 metres title, defeating Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and Olympic Champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy in the race.[citation needed]
Career
Bungei was ranked No.1 in the world over 800 m in 2002 and 2003. He has a personal best of 1:42.34 minutes (Rieti 2002). At the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton he won a silver medal over 800 m, finishing behind André Bucher.[citation needed]
While in school, he focused on sprints and decathlon, before concentrating on 800 metres running.[2] He graduated from Samoei High School in 1998. At the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics he won a silver medal. Bungei represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Bungei is from Kabirirsang, a village near Kapsabet. Several of his relatives are runners, including his brother Sammy Kurgat, who won the 2008 Cologne Marathon. He is a second cousin to Kenyan-born Danish former athlete Wilson Kipketer, while his mum is a cousin of Henry Rono.[2]
Bungei is based near Verona, Italy during track season. He is married to Priscah Bungei with two sons (as of 2008).[3]
He was part of the 4 × 800 metres relay team who currently holds the world record.[citation needed]
References
External links
- Wilfred Bungei at World Athletics
- IAAF Focus on Athletes
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- 1900: Alfred Tysoe (GBR)
- 1904: Jim Lightbody (USA)
- 1908: Mel Sheppard (USA)
- 1912: Ted Meredith (USA)
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- 1924: Douglas Lowe (GBR)
- 1928: Douglas Lowe (GBR)
- 1932: Tommy Hampson (GBR)
- 1936: John Woodruff (USA)
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- 1952: Mal Whitfield (USA)
- 1956: Tom Courtney (USA)
- 1960: Peter Snell (NZL)
- 1964: Peter Snell (NZL)
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- 1972: Dave Wottle (USA)
- 1976: Alberto Juantorena (CUB)
- 1980: Steve Ovett (GBR)
- 1984: Joaquim Cruz (BRA)
- 1988: Paul Ereng (KEN)
- 1992: William Tanui (KEN)
- 1996: Vebjørn Rodal (NOR)
- 2000: Nils Schumann (GER)
- 2004: Yuriy Borzakovskiy (RUS)
- 2008: Wilfred Bungei (KEN)
- 2012: David Rudisha (KEN)
- 2016: David Rudisha (KEN)
- 2020: Emmanuel Korir (KEN)
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