Isaac Kiprono Songok
Isaac Kiprono Songok ( born April 25, 1984 in Kaptel at Kapsabet, Nandi District, Rift Valley Province) is a Kenyan middle and long distance runners.
The youth 2001 world champion in the 1500 meter race was over the same distance at the World Athletics Championships 2003 in Paris / Saint- Denis and ninth at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens twelfth.
Subsequently he moved to the 5000 -meter run. Despite formidable times ( in the fastest race of the year 2006, he ran, beaten only by Kenenisa Bekele, 12:48,66 min) him a great success in international championships was also denied, although he was at the Kenyan elimination fights against the tough national competition prevailed: at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 he finished tenth at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, he retired in the run- off.
When his real strength proved to be the cross-country running. In 2004 he finished seventh on the short distance of the World Cross Country Championships, in 2005 he won bronze in 2006 and silver then where he remained only a second behind the World Cross Country Championship time winner Kenenisa Bekele.
Isaac Kiprono Songok belongs to the ethnicity of the Nandi and is the second of seven children of a small farmer. He attended St. Patrick's High School in Iten, Brother Colm O'Connell whose leader discovered his running talent and promoted. He received further support from Bernard Lagat, who hails from the same village.