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Moses Kiptanui
Moses Kiptanui (born October 1, 1970 in Marakwet District, Kenya) is a Kenyan middle and long distance athlete mostly famous for 3,000 m steeplechase in which he was the number one ranked athlete from 1991 to 1995 and three time IAAF World Champion. Kiptanui was also the first man ever to run 3000m steeplechase in under eight minutes.
Career.
Kiptanui emerged in 1991 as a relatively unknown athlete. He won several IAAF Grand Prix races that season. He celebrated an especially spectacular victory in
ten globally with a run of 8:14.93 minutes for third at the Memorial Van Damme. He was prominent on the circuit in the 1991 season, winning at the FBK Games before setting a new best of 8:11.25 minutes in Getxo. He was runner-up at the Athletissima meet and then defeated Moses Kiptanui at the Golden Gala in Rome. His winning time of 8:08.39 minutes moved him up to third on the all-time lists at that point, behind Kiptanui and world record holder Peter Koech. That was his peak that year