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Collins Kipruto
Collins Kipruto (born 12 April 1994) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specializing in the 800 metres. He was the overall winner of the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Tour in the 800 m. Biography Collins is from Nyahururu, Kenya where he is a Kenya Wildlife Service officer in addition to his athletics career. At the 2019 Penn Relays, Kipruto anchored the winning Kenyan sprint medley relay team with a 1:47.16 split. This performance led to him qualifying for the 2019 IAAF World Relays, where he competed in 2019 IAAF World Relays – Mixed 2 × 2 × 400 metres relay, the new mixed 2 × 2 × 400 m relay with women's teammate Eglay Nafuna Nalyanya. The team finished 4th across the line, but was later disqualified due to Nalyanya accidentally stepping inside the track. Kipruto was a regular on the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Tour series, which concluded in February 2020. By virtue of winning the 800 m at the Copernicus Cup, Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais, and the Villa de Madrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISTAF Berlin
The Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF) is an annual track and field athletics meeting at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. It was first held in July 1921 at the Deutsches Stadion, which was replaced from 1937 by the Stadium of the 1936 Olympic Games. Since 2006 ISTAF has been sponsored by DKB and officially known as the DKB-ISTAF and from 2010, had been part of the IAAF World Challenge, the second tier of global one day athletics events. Nowadays it's part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver tier, the third overall tier. History On 3 July 1921 the ''Berliner Sport-Club'' (BSC), the '' Sport-Club Charlottenburg'' (SCC) and the ''Schwimm-Club Poseidon'' organised the first sports festival under the current name of Internationales Stadionfest or ISTAF. On 23 March 1937 the BSC, the ''Deutscher Sport-Club'' (DSC, later ''Olympischer Sport-Club'' OSC) and the SCC, agreed to hold international sports festivals together and organized the first meeting on 1 August 1937 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |