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	Kipchoge Keino
		Kipchoge "Kip" Keino (born January 17, 1940) is a Kenyan runner, among the first in a long line of successful distance runners to come from the country.
		In 1968, he won the 1500m gold medal and 5000m silver medal at Olympics, despite illness.
		Currently, Keino heads a charitable foundation for orphans in Kenya and is president of the Kenyan Olympic Committee[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ki/Kipchoge_Keino.html (77 words)

	Kipchoge Keino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Kipsamo, Nandi District, Kenya, Kip Keino was among the first in a long circle 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.
		On August 27, 1965, Keino lowered the 3000 m world record by over 6 seconds to 7:39.6 at his first attempt at the distance.
		Currently, Keino lives on a magnificent farm in Western Kenya where he controls and runs a charitable organization for orphans and is president of the Kenyan Olympic Committee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kipchoge_Keino (348 words)

	CNN.com - Kipchoge Keino - Jun 3, 2004
		Keino claimed an unexpected victory in the 3,000m steeplechase in Munich in 1972.
		Keino was 24-years-old before he competed at his first Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 where he finished 10th and fifth in the 1,500m and 5,000m respectively.
		Keino will be remembered for two things: opening up the latent athletic talent of Africa and his disquieting natural ability to conquer all-comers in five distinct events.
	robots.cnn.com /2004/SPORT/06/03/olympics.keino (470 words)

	History and Heroes from every Olympic Games since 1896; Sunday Times Great British Olympians
		Keino got caught in a traffic jam, jumped out of the car he was travelling in and ran the last mile to the stadium.
		Later, Keino would recall the passion that he held in his heart as the race started: "I was thinking, 'this is the race of my life'.
		Keino was driven to that calling by an incident that had happenend in the early 1960s, when, during a tour of duty with the police on Kenya's northern border, he came across three wandering children.
	www.times-olympics.co.uk /historyheroes/kkein.html (561 words)

	CNNSI.com - Olympic Sports - Runner says Kenya has a long way to go - Friday July 14, 2000 07:22 PM
		Keino, 60, was the man who started Kenya on the path to becoming a nation of runners.
		Keino won two more medals at the 1972 Olympics, a gold in the steeplechase and a silver in the 1,500.
		Keino's 20-room home is a winding, maze-like structure that includes a huge kitchen, a library filled with children's books and eating and sleeping rooms for all the kids.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/news/2000/07/14/kenyan_runner (731 words)

	Kip Keino visits campus
		Keino, 68, has engaged in a number of entrepreneurial and humanitarian efforts in Kenya's Rift Valley, including funding an AIDS program and running an orphanage he founded after he and his wife took in two children in 1983.
		Keino also operates a tea plantation and a sporting goods store, is a member of the IOC and president of Kenya's Olympic Committee and continues to race, having run full marathons well into his 60s.
		Keino's visit was facilitated by Kevin Thompson, M.S. '83, who first met Keino three years ago in Kenya, and his wife, Michelle Thompson, M.R.P. '84, Ph.D. '01, a visiting lecturer in city and regional planning.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/Dec06/AAP.Kip.dea.html (603 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		Kip Keino, an uncoached Nandi tribesman, was already 28 years old when he made his second Olympic appearance at the 1968 Mexico City Games.
		In 1972, Keino entered the steeplechase even though he had little experience in the event.
		Keino and his wife, Phyllis, eventually established a childrens' home and school for orphaned and abandoned children.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=21763 (196 words)

	Kip Keino
		Keino's universe begins and ends on his farm, in his newly built 20- room compound with a library and chapel, amid his children.
		In his first event, the 10,000 meter, he was in the lead pack with two laps to go when he collapsed in pain and staggered onto the infield, Before the stretchers arrived, he scrambled to his feet and finished the race even though he had been disqualified.
		Keino found it hard to say no: "Sometimes their mothers died in childbirth and no one came for them.
	www.sportshumanitarian.com /Inductees/KEINO.HTM (1380 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		Hezekiah Kipchoge Keino, philanthropist and Kenya's athletics trailblazer, is set to take over today as National Olympic Committee of Kenya chairman.
		Keino has served in the IOC's athletes commission and was also in an IOC special commission that studied the bids for the 2004 summer Games, which Athens won the right to host.
		Keino, who runs a children's home at his Kazi Mingi farm in Eldoret, was named 1987 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, earning him an invitation to a reception hosted by the then United States president Ronald Reagan at the White House.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/100299/Sports/Sports11.html (413 words)

	Tunza The UNEP Magazine for Youth - For Young People, by Young People, About Young People
		Keino established Kenya's tradition of world-class runners, and is now on his country's National Olympic Committee.
		Keino has also established a school, which educates the orphans and other local children, and a farm to feed them and provide a surplus to sell to raise money.
		Keino says that all this is a way of giving something back to the poor.
	www.ourplanet.com /tunza/issue0201en/pages/giving.html (276 words)

	Ohio Runner - Olympian Kip Keino to attend BGSU 5k AIDS Benefit
		Keino, who is considered by many to be the father of Kenyan distance running, burst onto the international track and field scene in the mid 1960’s with repeat gold in the mile and two mile at the Commonwealth Games.
		Keino faced the heavily favored Jim Ryun of the United States, who had already been heralded as one of the greatest runners of his generation, having been the first high schooler to run sub-four minute miles.
		Keino held onto his breakneck pace to finish in 3:34.9, the second fastest 1500 ever run at that point.
	www.ohiorunner.com /articleview.asp?id=26&rss=1 (537 words)

	From top runner to football’s Mr. Fix It
		Kipchoge is expected to make maximum use of his many years in sports to put things together.
		Kipchoge "Kip" Keino was born on January 17, 1940 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.
		Currently, Keino lives on a farm in Eldoret where he heads a charitable foundation for orphans and is president of the Kenyan Olympic Committee.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/july/sun11072004/sports/sport10070408.htm (656 words)

	Cool Running :: Keino junior drops off the pace after a decade
		When Keino retired last month, the party to celebrate his decade of pace-setting was attended by Kenyan athletics celebrities including world marathon record holder Paul Tergat, 2000 Olympics 1,500 metres champion Noah Ngeny and 1997 world 3,000 metres steeplechase champion Wilson Boit Kipketer.
		In their native Kenya, Martin Keino commands as much attention and respect as his father Kipchoge Keino, whose successes included two Olympic gold medals for the 1,500 metres in 1968 and 3,000 metres steeplechase in 1972.
		Keino, who hung his running spikes and vests on the gate of his house in the leafy Lavington suburb of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to announce his retirement from athletics, has now ventured into sports marketing.
	www.coolrunning.com /engine/3/3_1/keino-junior-drops-off-th.shtml (823 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Probe into Kenyan athletic flop
		Running legend Kipchoge Keino is to head a probe into what has gone wrong with Kenyan athletics and find a new head coach to prepare the team for next year's Athens Olympics.
		Keino, who sparked Kenya's running boom by winning Olympic gold at the 1968 Mexico City Games, called for an inquiry into drug-taking in July after Pamela Chepchumba was banned for two years for doping.
		Keino is a former chairman of the National Olympics Committee Kenya (NOCK) and is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
	sport.iafrica.com /news/268220.htm (625 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Kipchoge Keino
		Kipchoge Keino, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) and IOC executive member, has been appointed to head a Normalisation Committee for the Kenya Football Federation.
		Keino, however, said he was happy that his committee has seen the KFF elections process through.
		Keino was speaking at the Moi International Sports Centre (MISC), Kasarani, yesterday when he presented Sh400,000 to the players which was the money promised by the Government to the team for winning against Guinea.
	www.zoominfo.com /Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=112518785 (478 words)

	Keino, Kip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A member of the Nandi tribe, he was born Kipchoge Keino in Kipsamo, Kenya, and worked as a physical training instructor in the police force before becoming an athlete.
		Keino began his international running career in 1962 when he set a Kenyan record in the 1-mile race.
		Keino's most acclaimed international victory came at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, where, after having to jog a mile to the stadium because his taxi was stuck in traffic, he won the 1500-meter race with an Olympic record time of 3 minutes 34.9 seconds.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/k/keino/01.html (299 words)

	COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIQUE - ATHLÈTES
		Kip Keino, de la tribu des Nandi, n'avait jamais eu d'entraîneur et avait déjà 28 ans lors de sa deuxième apparition olympique lors des Jeux de Mexico en 1968.
		En 1972, Keino participe aux épreuves de steeple bien qu'il n'ait que peu d'expérience en la matière.
		Keino et son épouse Phyllis ouvriront ensuite un foyer pour enfants et une école destinée aux enfants orphelins et abandonnés.
	www.olympic.org /fr/athletes/heroes/bio_fr.asp?PAR_I_ID=21763 (224 words)

	RunOhio -- Regional News Article
		Keino will be in Bowling Green on Friday April 22 nd and will be signing autographs on campus in Oscamp room 117, during a reception from 6:30 p.m.
		Keino's Olympic baptism came in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, finishing fourth in the 1,500 and then fifth in the 5,000 meters behind Dayton, Ohio's Bob Schul.
		Keino returned to make his living as a police officer and to run his farm and orphanage.
	www.runohio.com /news/04-08-05Kieno.html (1203 words)

	Your True Hero - View Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Kipchoge Keino, the greatest name in Kenya's glorious distance running history now 60, did more than anyone to establish Kenya's legacy as the nation of runners.
		Keino won another Olympic gold medal four years later in the steeplechase, an event he had run only a few times previously, and added a silver in the 1,500.
		As great as Keino was as a runner, he has become an even greater humanitarian.
	www.yourtruehero.org /content/hero/view_hero.asp?13147 (648 words)

	Daily Nation on the Web
		At age 63, legendary athlete Kipchoge Keino is still on the run as he was at his prime 37 years ago at the Mexico City Olympics when he won two medals.
		On the morning of Monday, Keino who will have traded his running shorts with suit and tie and will be at Eldoret Airport to receive a delegation of 54 guests from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) who will visit a high altitude training centre at his farm near Plateau in Eldoret.
		Keino said the fact that Oxfam is raising funds for destitute children in the world is a noble idea as he has an orphanage at his Kazi Mingi farm.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/10042002/Sports/Sports10.html (509 words)

	Kenya's track athletes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Keino was at the time suffering from gallstones and participated in the Olympics against his doctor’s advice.
		Kip Keino is the only Kenyan sportsman ever to appear on the Cover of world famous sports magazine, "Sports Illustrated" (December 21 1987).
		Kipchoge Keino and Ben Jipcho finished first and second in the steeplechase.
	kenyapage.net /sports/kenya-track.html (946 words)

	Kipchoge Keino \| THG Lexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Keino ist der berühmteste kenianische Mittel- und Langstreckenläufer und hat neben zahlreichen anderen Erfolgen zwei olympische Goldmedaillen gewonnen.
		Kipchoge Keino \| 1972: Pekka Vasala \|; 1976: John Walker \|; 1980: Sebastian Coe \| 1984: Sebastian Coe \| 1988: Peter Rono \|; 1992: Fermin Cacho \| 1996: Noureddine Morceli \| 2000: Noah Ngeny \| 2004: Hicham El Guerrouj
		Kipchoge Keino \| 1976: Anders Gärderud \|; 1980: Bronisław Malinowski \|; 1984: Julius Korir \|; 1988: Julius Kariuki \|; 1992: Matthew Birir \| 1996: Joseph Keter \|; 2000: Reuben Kosgei \| 2004: Ezekiel Kemboi
	www.tomshardware.de /lexikon/Kipchoge_Keino (403 words)

	BNW News: Biafra Nigeria World News: Pride of Africa: Biafra NigeriaWorld is the Authority on BiafraNigeria:: the home ...
		Legendary athlete Kipchoge Keino is to head an interim committee formed by Fifa to resolve the impasse in Kenyan football.
		Keino is the current chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya and an International Olympic Committee member.
		Keino won gold medals at the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games and is one of Kenya's most celebrated athletes, commanding respect both at home and abroad.
	news.biafranigeriaworld.com /archive/2004/jul/11/016.html (330 words)

	Kip Keino Athletics Meet - Saturday, 15th July at Irishtown Stadium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Races on the day will accommodate all, whether old or young, from the serious club runners chasing times to the ordinary joggers, where their will be a special mile held.
		Kipchoge ("Kip") Keino was among the first in a long lineage of successful middle and long distance runners to come from Kenya and has helped and inspired many of his fellow countrymen and women to become the athletics force that they are today.
		Keino, 66, is a Two-Time Olympic Gold Medallist winning the 1,500m at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico and then the 3,000m steeplechase four years later in Munich.
	www.irishrunner.com /06keino1.html (164 words)

	Iolani School - Legends of Track Visit
		Keino enthralled his audience, recounting his childhood in the Nandi Hills of Kenya growing up on a farm and running nine shoeless miles each way to school every day. Every day, that is, until he advanced to a school fifteen miles from his home.
		Perhaps the words of one of Keino's countrymen captured his importance best. Mike Boit, a silver medalist at the 1972 Olympics, once said, "Kip Keino is not only the father of Kenya distance running who put this country on the map. He's our national treasure."
		By sharing with the people of Iolani the treasure that he is, Keino showed what it means to live one's beliefs.
	www.iolani.org /wn_usacad_121106_cp.htm (300 words)

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