Benjamin KIGEN

Benjamin KIGEN - Kenya - Bronze medal at 2020 Olympic Games.

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 09 September 2021

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Monday, 05 July 1993
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Baringo County, Kenya.
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • Kenya
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Benjamin KIGEN - Kenya - Bronze medal at 2020 Olympic Games.

2020 Olympic bronze medallist Benjamin Kigen running in that event

at the Zurich Diamond League meeting, where he just beat the

Olympic Champion Soufiane El Bakkali :  8:17.45 to 8:17.70

 

2020 Olympic Games. Tokyo.

Men's 3,000m steeplechase final (ran in 2021)


 1. Soufiane El Bakkali     Morocco     8:09.90
 2. Lamecha Girma   Ethiopia 8:10.38  
 3. Benjamin Kigen   Kenya 8:11.45  
 4. 
Getnet Wale   Ethiopia 8:14.97  
 5. Yemane Haileselassie   Eritrea 8:15.34
 6. Matthew Hughes   Canada 8:16.03
 7. Ryuji Miura   Japan 8:16.90  
 8. Topi Raitanen   Finland 8:17.44

 

In 2021 his personal best was 8:05.12 set in Monaco 2019.