Brimin Kipruto

Brimin Kipruto

Brimin Kipruto at the Rio 2016 Olympics
Medal record
Representing  Kenya
Men's athletics
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	3000 m st.
	2004 Athens	3000 m st.
World Championships
	2007 Osaka	3000 m st.
	2011 Daegu	3000 m st.
	2005 Helsinki	3000 m st.
	2015 Beijing	3000 m st.
Commonwealth Games
	2010 Delhi	3000 m st.

Brimin Kipruto (born 31 July 1985) is a Kenyan professional middle distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He was born in Korkitony, Keiyo District. He holds a personal best of 7:53.64 minutes which is the second fastest time ever run, and the African Record.^[1] His personal best is only 0.01 of a second behind the world record of former country mate Saif Saaeed Shaheen, who switched national affiliation to Qatar after growing up as Stephen Cherono in the Keiyo District.

He won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics at the age of nineteen and improved to win the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics four years later. A World Championships bronze medallist in 2005, he took his first global title in the steeplechase with a win at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.