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Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Competitor for Kenya
World Championships

Wilfred Kirochi (born 12 December 1969) is a former Kenyan middle distance runner who won a silver medal at the 1991 World Championships' final in Tokyo in the 1500 m event.^[1] Previously Kirochi had won two World Junior Championship titles in 1986 and 1988 (where he defeated future world and olympic champion Noureddine Morceli).^[2].

In 1990 Kirochi also won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland behind Peter Elliott.^[3] Kirochi did not qualify for the Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992 as a he did not finish in the top three at the Kenyan trials in Nairobi. However, just prior to the Olympics he won the meetings in Oslo and Nice where he set a temporary world season's best. Later in the season he improved his personal best to 3:32.49 min.

[edit] References

^ "Keitany Hungry for Berlin Gold". Daily Nation. 31 July 2009. http://allafrica.com/stories/200907310923.html. Retrieved 17 February 2010.
^ "World Junior Championships 1988 - Results". World Junior Athletics History (WJAH). http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/WJC/WJC1988.html. Retrieved 17 February 2010.
^ "Queen Closes the Games". The New York Times. 4 February 1990. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/04/sports/queen-closes-the-games.html?pagewanted=1. Retrieved 17 February 2010.

[edit] External links

IAAF profile for Wilfred Kirochi

[0] "Keitany Hungry for Berlin Gold". Daily Nation. 31 July 2009. http://allafrica.com/stories/200907310923.html. Retrieved 17 February 2010.

[1] "World Junior Championships 1988 - Results". World Junior Athletics History (WJAH). http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/WJC/WJC1988.html. Retrieved 17 February 2010.

[2] "Queen Closes the Games". The New York Times. 4 February 1990. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/04/sports/queen-closes-the-games.html?pagewanted=1. Retrieved 17 February 2010.

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