David Rudisha

my current training partner Sammy Tangui. Initially i was a 200, 400, metres runner, but my coach, Irishman Colm O’Connell, prompted me to try 800 m. In 2006 i became the world junior champion over that distance. I competed at the 2009 World Athletics Championships, reaching the 800 metres semifinals. In September 2009, I won the IAAF Grand Prix meeting in Rieti, Italy, posting a new African record of 1:42.01, beating the 25-year old record of 1:42.28 set by compatriot Sammy Koskei. That effort put me in fourth place on the all-time list. In the 2010 IAAF Diamond League, took on Abubaker Kaki at the Bislett Games in June. I defeated Sebastian Coe’s 31-year-old meet record with a run of 1:42.04, giving me another place in the top-ten fastest ever 800 m and leaving Kaki the consolation of the fastest ever non-winning time. On 10 July 2010, I ran the 800 m in 1:41.51 at the KBC Night of Athletics in Heusden, Belgium; this new personal record placed Me No. 2 all-time in the world for the 800 m. After failing to make to the finals in 2009 WC, I change my running tactics to front running, since then i worked very closely with my pace maker Sammy Tangui. On 22 August 2010 I broke Wilson Kipketer’s 800 m World Record two days before the anniversary of that record with a time of 1:41.09 while racing in the ISATF meeting in Berlin. Just a week later, he broke the record again at the Rieti World challenge Meeting, lowering it to 1:41.01

In November 2010, at the age of 21, I became the youngest ever athlete to win the IAAF World Athlete of the Year award. I did also won the Kenyan Sportsman of the Year award. With a time of 1:41.74, I set the United States all comers 800 m record at the 2012 adidas Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium in New York City. I guaranteed my selection for the Kenyan Olympic team for the first time with a win at the Kenyan trials, running a time of 1:42.12 minutes—the fastest ever recorded at altitude. In 2014 after the Sochi winter Olympics ANOC hosted the first ever gala to appreciate the best performance of Olympian sport men and women, I was nominated as one of the best athlete of London 2012, later i was awarded the the most outstanding athlete of both London 2012 and i was the OVERALL winner of male athlete of London 2012 Olympics,