Douglas Wakiihuri [SEP] place of birth
Douglas Wakiihuri
Douglas Wakiihuri (born September 26, 1963 in Mombasa) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner, who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome.
No other male Kenyan runner had ever won the marathon at World Championships or Olympic Games until 2007, when Luke Kibet became a world champion. The following year, Wakiihuri won the silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, finishing behind Gelindo Bordin.
In 1989 Wakiihuri won the London Marathon.
and Bordin wisely held back from the leaders in the early stages. He caught up the leaders after the 35 km mark and finally settled to third place.
At the Olympic marathon in Seoul, Bordin stayed with the leaders from the start, and after the leading pack started losing contact one by one, and with remaining, only three runners remained: Bordin, Douglas Wakiihuri from Kenya and Hussein Ahmed Salah from Djibouti. With to go, Salah and Wakiihuri sprinted forward, and Bordin passed them with to go to