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| Nationality | Kenyan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 August 1998 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 1500m | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 1500m: 3:33.84 (Poznan, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Brian Komen (born 10 August 1998) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner. He was a gold medalist at the 2023 African Games over 1500 metres. [1]
In June 2023, Komen ran a personal best for 1500 metres in Poznan of 3:33.84. [2]
Competing indoors in 2024, he finished runner-up at the Sparkassen Indoor Meeting in Dortmund over 1500 metres, before finishing eighth and fourth respectively at the Czech Indoor Gala in Prague and at the Metz Moselle Athleor in France. [3] His time of 3:37.42 in Metz was an indoors personal best. [4]
Komen won the Kenyan African Games national trials, beating Abel Kipsang into second place in Nairobi in a time of 3:38.26. [5] [6] On 22 March 2024, he was a gold medalist over 1500 metres at the 2023 African Games in Accra in a time of 3:39.19. [7] [8] On 20 April 2024, he was the runner-up over 1500 metres at the Kip Keino Classic in Kenya. [9] In May 2024, he won the 1500 metres at the 2024 Doha Diamond League event. [10]
Kipchoge Hezekiah Keino is a retired Kenyan track and field athlete. He was the chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee (KOC) until 29 September 2017. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Keino was among the first in a long line of successful middle and long distance runners to come from the country and has helped and inspired many of his fellow countrymen and women to become the athletics force that they are today. In 2000, he became an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In 2012, he was one of 24 athletes inducted as inaugural members of the IAAF Hall of Fame.
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