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Augustine Choge

Augustine Kiprono Choge
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Augustine Choge
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Kenya
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 2012 Istanbul 3000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Portland 3000 m
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2004 Grosseto 5000 m
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Sherbrooke 3000 m
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne 5000 m
World Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Saint-Galmier Junior race

Augustine Kiprono Choge (born 21 January 1987) is a Kenyan middle distance and long distance runner.

He won world youth and junior titles on the track in 2003 and 2004, eventually going on to set a world junior record for the 3000 metres in 2005. In his final year as a junior he won the World Cross Country title.

He claimed the 5000 metres gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, but began to focus more on the 1500 metres from then on. He reached the 1500 m finals at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Choge broke the long-standing 4×1500 metres relay world record with a Kenyan team of runners in September 2009.

Choge was born in 1987 to a family of small-scale famers at Kipsigak, near Kapsabet in the Nandi District of Rift Valley Province, Kenya.

He won national secondary schools 10,000 metres in 2002. At the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships he finished fourth in the Junior race and won gold medal as a part of the junior team. He competed at the 2003 East African Youth Championships in May in Addis Ababa and won three gold medals, in 800, 1500 and 3000 metres. At the 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics he won the 3000 metres race. He holds the 3000 metres world junior record set in May 2005 in Doha, the previous record (7:30.67) was held by Kenenisa Bekele, set in 2001.


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