Augustine Choge
 Augustine Choge |
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| Men's athletics | ||
Representing  Kenya
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| World Indoor Championships | ||
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2012 Istanbul | 3000 m |
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2016 Portland | 3000 m |
| World Junior Championships | ||
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2004 Grosseto | 5000 m |
| World Youth Championships | ||
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2003 Sherbrooke | 3000 m |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
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2006 Melbourne | 5000 m |
| World Cross Country Championships | ||
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2005 Saint-Galmier | Junior race |
Augustine Kiprono Choge (born 21 January 1987) is a Kenyan middle distance and long distance runner.
He won world youth and junior titles on the track in 2003 and 2004, eventually going on to set a world junior record for the 3000 metres in 2005. In his final year as a junior he won the World Cross Country title.
He claimed the 5000 metres gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, but began to focus more on the 1500 metres from then on. He reached the 1500 m finals at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Choge broke the long-standing 4×1500 metres relay world record with a Kenyan team of runners in September 2009.
Choge was born in 1987 to a family of small-scale famers at Kipsigak, near Kapsabet in the Nandi District of Rift Valley Province, Kenya.
He won national secondary schools 10,000 metres in 2002. At the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships he finished fourth in the Junior race and won gold medal as a part of the junior team. He competed at the 2003 East African Youth Championships in May in Addis Ababa and won three gold medals, in 800, 1500 and 3000 metres. At the 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics he won the 3000 metres race. He holds the 3000 metres world junior record set in May 2005 in Doha, the previous record (7:30.67) was held by Kenenisa Bekele, set in 2001.
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