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Richard Chelimo (February 24, 1972 – August 15, 2001) was a Kenyan athlete, and a former world and world junior record holder over 10,000 m. However, he is best known as the athlete who was unjustly denied a gold medal in the infamous 10,000 m at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. A womens 400 metre hurdles race on a typical outdoor red rubber track. ...
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The 1992 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ...
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Family and tribe
Chelimo, who was born in the Marakwet region of Kenya, was a member of the Kalenjin tribe (known by some as the "running tribe"). He came from a noted athletic family, even amongst the tribesmen, his cousin, Moses Kiptanui, was a three-time steeplechase world champion, whilst his brother, Ismael Kirui, was twice world champion over 5000 m. Marakwet is a corruption of Markweta. ...
The Kalenjin is a combination of seven tribes of a Nilotic ethnic group or tribe living in the Great Rift Valley in western Kenya. ...
Moses Kiptanui (born: October 1, 1970 in Marakwet, Kenya) is a middle and long distance athlete mostly famous for 3000 m steeplechase in which he was the number one ranked athlete from 1991 to 1995. ...
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Ismael Kirui is a former Kenyan long distance runner who won gold medals over 5000 metres at the 1993 and the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. ...
Athletic career Chelimo's first international success was in the junior section of the 1990 world cross country championship in Aix-les-Bains, France, where he took silver. Though Chelimo received little attention due to the Kenyan domination of the event, their team won 10 successive junior titles. This article is about the year. ...
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However, it was not long before the athletic community took notice of Chelimo's talent. Later that year he won the gold medal in the 10,000 m at the world junior championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Chelimo won the race by 12 seconds from his own brother, Kirui, who was only 15 at the time. Plovdiv (Bulgarian: Пловдив) is the second largest city in Bulgaria, with a population of 376,918. ...
Chelimo was selected in the Kenyan senior squad for the 10,000 m at the 1991 world championships, which took place in Tokyo. As Kenya's second runner he was assigned the task of being pacemaker to Moses Tanui. He was successful in dragging Tanui clear of his main rival, Morocco's Khalid Skah, and on the final lap he allowed Tanui to sprint clear to take the gold medal. The 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1. ...
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Moses Tanui is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who won the gold medal over 10000m at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. ...
Khalid Skah (born January 29, 1967) is a Moroccan athlete, winner of 10 000 m at the 1992 Summer Olympics. ...
The following year, at the Olympics, Chelimo met Skah again. With three laps remaining in the 10,000 m final the two athletes were clear and battling for the gold medal. At this point the pair came to lap another Moroccan athlete, Hammou Boutayeb, who proceeded to stay with the leaders and twice cut across Chelimo in order to give his compatriot an advantage. This act was contrary to competition rules which state that a lapped runner cannot "assist" another runner. These events incensed the Spanish crowd, and the Swedish track judge Carl-Gustav Tollemar attempted to pull Boutayeb off the track to no avail. Hammou Boutayeb (born 1956) is a Moroccan long-distance runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres. ...
During the final 150 m Skah sprinted away from Chelimo to win the race, and to the crowd's delight was disqualified. This meant that Chelimo was the Olympic champion. However, the Moroccans appealed against the disqualification and Skah was reinstated the next morning due to the fact that the rule under which he was disqualified did not define a penalty. Skah was reinstated because the rule wasn't technically a rule at all. During the medal ceremony Skah was loudly booed by the crowd, whilst Chelimo received a standing ovation.
In 1993 Chelimo broke the world junior and senior 10,000 m world record, in a time of 27 min 07.91 s, in Stockholm. He was to hold the senior world record for only five days before it was broken again by his compatriot Yobes Ondieki. He held the junior record for over 11 years before it was broken by Ugandan Boniface Kiprop at a Golden League meeting on September 3, 2004, in a time of 27 min 04.00 s. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
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Boniface Kiprop (born October 12, 1985 in Kapchorwa) is a track and field athlete from Uganda, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native African country. ...
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At the 1993 world championships in Stuttgart, Germany, Chelimo once again failed to win gold at a major championships. He managed only third place as he could not match the pace of Tanui and, a new star from Ethiopia, Haile Gebrselassie. This was another controversial race as Tanui lost a shoe after Gebreselassie stepped on his heel; the Ethiopian went on to win the race. The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium, Stuttgart, Germany between August 13 and August 22. ...
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Life after athletics Chelimo retired from athletics in 1996, according to his cousin, Kiptanui, he retired after growing despondent following his failure to rise to the very top of the sport. He returned to his old job in the army and put on a lot of weight and began to drink excessively — a decline quite similar to that of Henry Rono. However, his friends Tanui and William Mutwol encouraged him to return to training and get back into shape. Chelimo eventually got back down to within 5 kg of his racing weight. He died of a brain tumour at the age of 29. Henry Rono (born February 12, 1952) is a Kenyan athlete, considered a seminal figure of Kenyan distance running. ...
William Mutwol (born October 10, 1967) is a former long-distance runner from Kenya. ...
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