Henry Rono

Henry Rono ( born February 12, 1952 at Nandi District ) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner, who set four world records over 3000 m, 3000 m steeplechase, 5,000 m and 10,000 m in 1978 within 81 days.

In the same year Rono won the gold medals over 3000 m steeplechase and 5,000 m at the Commonwealth Games. After these successes Rono got psychological problems and suffered from paranoia. But he succeeded in 1981 an impressive comeback. He could improve on 13 September 5000 m world record again on 13:06,20 min. Due to this success, he was courted by many managers and started again at meetings in the 48-hour clock. The consequence was that he burned down and his best performances could not provide. Also, the change to the marathon distance not helped him to make a comeback; the Chicago Marathon 1986 he had to settle for a 26th place. In the 1990s, he caught with alcohol excesses stir. The Athletics IAAF had him even buying out of jail. At times he was living in a homeless shelter.

After he had lived for years of odd jobs, he managed an alcohol withdrawal. He now works as a physical education teacher in Albuquerque, supervised a team as a coach and endeavors in the vicinity of his former competition weight of 63 kg to come (with a size of 1.73 m), having in the meantime placed 100 kilos.

Published in 2007, Henry Rono his autobiography Olympic Dream. In 2008 he was awarded the IAAF made ​​at its world gala with an Inspirational Award.

Bests

World Records

10,000 m

5,000 m

  • April 8, 1978 in 13:08,4 min at Berkeley (after three and a half years undercut by himself)
  • (Upgraded from David Moorcroft on 7 July 1982 ) 13 September 1981 13:06,2 min in Knarvik

3,000 m

  • ( Improved 11 years later by Said Aouita on August 20, 1989) June 27, 1978 in 7:32,1 min in Oslo

3,000 m steeplechase

Publication

  • Olympic legend. AuthorHouse, 2007, ISBN 1-4343-2787-6
Long-distance running 3000 metres 5000 metres 1978 Commonwealth Games Chicago-Marathon International Association of Athletics Federations Albuquerque, New Mexico Mile run Pullman (Washington) Fernando Mamede Berkeley, California Peter Koech Herbert Steffny Frankfurter Rundschau
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