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Conseslus Kipruto takes Olympic steeplechase title in record time
- Updated: August 17, 2016
Only a fool would bet against a Kenyan winning gold in the men’s 3000m steeplechase at the Olympics. The East African nation has won every title since 1984 and in Rio the sequence continued with Conseslus Kipruto taking the title in an Olympic record of 8:03.28.
It was not a clean sweep for Kenya, though, as Evan Jager of the United States struck a blow for non-African distance runners by earning a hard-fought silver as he also went under the old Olympic record.
Jager led for much of the latter stages before Kipruto blasted clear down the back straight on the last lap. But the American rallied to beat Ezekiel Kemboi, the 2004 and 2012 Olympic champion, as he clocked 8:04.28 ahead of Kemboi’s 8:08.47, with Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad of France fourth in 8:11.52.
When Kemboi was taking Olympic gold in London four years ago, Kipruto was winning the world junior title in Barcelona. Since then the 21-year-old has won silver twice at the World Championships and Rio was a first major senior title for the Dutch-based runner. “I was so …
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