- Ezekiel Kemboi
Ezekiel Kemboi Cheboi (born
May 25 ,1982 ) is aKenya n athlete, winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the2004 Summer Olympics .Born in
Matira , nearKapsowar ,Marakwet District . Kemboi graduated from Kapsowar Boys Secondary School in 1999. He didn't take up athletics until after he left school, but was spotted byPaul Ereng and won theAfrican Junior Championships in 2001 in spite of falling IAAF, August 24, 2004: [http://www.iaaf.org/news/athletes/newsid=26949.html Focus on Africa - Ezekiel Kemboi (KEN)] ] .In 2002, Kemboi finished second at the Commonwealth Games behind compatriot
Stephen Cherono . The same year Kemboi was originally fourth at theAfrican Championships in Athletics , but was later awarded bronze after the winner MoroccanBrahim Boulami received a doping suspension.At the 2003 World Championships, Kemboi had a grueling battle with former teammate
Saif Saeed Shaheen (formerly Stephen Cherono) who represented his new countryQatar , before Shaheen pulled away from the exhausted Kemboi to win by less than a second.Kemboi won gold medal at the 2003 All-Africa Games.In absence of Shaheen – The Kenyan Olympic Committee refused to waive the three-year eligibility delay for established athletes who switch nationalities – Kemboi rose to a main favourite status at the
Athens Olympics. The race went very much according to form, with the three Kenyans Kemboi,Brimin Kipruto andPaul Kipsiele Koech pushing the pace from the second lap and soon leaving the rest of the field behind and Kemboi winning a gold medal 0.3 seconds ahead of Kipruto.In August 2005 he won a silver medal at the
2005 World Championships in Athletics , and in March 2006 he won the2006 Commonwealth Games .Kemboi is managed by
Enrico Dionisi . Since 2002 he has owned a 50 acre farm nearMoi's Bridge ,Trans-Nzoia District . He is married and has a son born in 2002.x] ]References
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* IAAF, August 24, 2004: [http://www.iaaf.org/news/athletes/newsid=26949.html Focus on Africa - Ezekiel Kemboi (KEN)]
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