D.O.B: 06.30.89
N.O.C: Kenya
Height: 190 cm
Weight: 63 kg
Final Year of Competition: 2017
Years Top 10: 9
Personal bests
Mile: 3:48.50 (United States 2009)
600m: 1:18.0 (Kenya 2012)
800m: 1:43.15 (Monaco 2011)
1,000m: 2:14.23 (Switzerland 2016)
1,500m: 3:26.69 (Monaco 2015)
3,000m: 7:42.32 (Italy 2007)
5,000m: 13:48.43 (Kenya 2016)
4×1,500m Relay: 14:22.22 (Bahamas 2014)
Given KIPROP’s doping ban for EPO in 2019, his high ranking will understandably rankle amongst many. For the record, we are very strongly anti-doping, however, our HBM Rankings are about absolute performance and achievement throughout History via official and ratified records to achieve a fair ranking for athletes across the generations – to that end, we specifically use IOC & World Athletics-approved marks that already strip the record books accordingly to inform our assessments.
Against this backdrop, KIPROP’s achievements in the 1500m are to a level very few can match – his medal haul and elite longevity are bettered by only two athletes and he remains the third fastest man in History.
