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Bedan Karoki MUCHIRI

Bedan Karoki MUCHIRI - Kenya - Rio 2016 & Beijing 2015. 10,000m finalist at both.

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 15 August 2015

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Tuesday, 21 August 1990
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Nyandarua, Kenya.
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • Kenya
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Bedan Karoki MUCHIRI - Kenya - Rio 2016 & Beijing 2015. 10,000m finalist at both.

Bedan Karoki Muchiri during the men's 10,000m final in Beijing where he

finished fourth.

 

World Championships. Beijing.

Result of Final. Men's 10,000 metres.


1.
 Mo  FARAH  GBR  27:01.13
2.
 Geoffrey Kipsang
 KAMWOROR  KEN  27:01.76
3.  Paul Kipngetich
 TANUI  KEN  27:02.83
4.  Bedan Karoki
 MUCHIRI  KEN  27:04.77
5.  Galen  RUPP  USA  27:08.91
6.  Abrar  OSMAN  ERI  27:43.21
7.  Ali  KAYA  TUR  27:43.69
8.  Timothy  TOROITICH  UGA  27:44.90

 

The following year Bedan once more finished high in a major 10,000 metres final -

this time at the Olympic Games.

 

Mens' 10,000 metres final.

2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.

 

 1.
   Mo Farah     Great Britain
    27:05.17  
 2.    Paul Tanui    Kenya
    27:05.64
 SB
 3.    Tamirat Tola    Ethiopia     27:06.26      
 4.    Yigrem Demelash    Ethiopia     27:06.27  
 5.    Galen Rupp    United States     27:08.92  SB
 6.    Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei    Uganda     27:10.06
 PB
 7.    Bedan Karoki Muchiri
   Kenya
    27:22.93  
 8.    Zersenay Tadese    Eritrea
    27:23.86