CHERUIYOT Timothy

Date of Birth: 20 Nov 1995

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Place of birth: BOMET

Birth Country:

Kenya

Place of residence : NAIROBI

Residence Country:

Kenya

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Men's 1500m	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 1500m Round 1 - Heat 1	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 1500m Semi-Final 1	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 1500m Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	1500m
2019	Doha, QAT	1st (3:29.26)
2017	London, GBR	2nd (3:33.99)
2015	Beijing, CHN	7th (3:36.05)

African Championships

Year	Location	1500m
2018	Asaba, NGR	2nd (3:35.93)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	800m	1500m	Mile
2021	-	3 x 1st	-
2020	1 x 8th	2 x 1st	-
2019	-	3 x 1st, 1 x 2nd	1 x 1st
2018	-	5 x 1st	-
2017	-	2 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 5th	1 x 3rd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2021	1500m	Monaco, MON	3:28.28
1	2021	1500m	Stockholm, SWE	3:32.30
1	2021	1500m	Doha, QAT	3:30.48
1	2020	1500m	Stockholm, SWE	3:30.25
1	2020	1500m	Monaco, MON	3:28.45
1	2019	1500m	Brussels, BEL	3:30.22
1	2019	1500m	Lausanne, SUI	3:28.77
1	2019	1500m	Stockholm, SWE	3:35.79
1	2019	Mile	Stanford, CA, USA	3:50.49
1	2018	1500m	Zurich, SUI	3:30.27
1	2018	1500m	Monaco, MON	3:28.41
1	2018	1500m	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	3:29.71
1	2018	1500m	Rome, ITA	3:31.22
1	2018	1500m	Shanghai, CHN	3:31.48
1	2017	1500m	Zurich, SUI	3:33.93
1	2017	1500m	Stockholm, SWE	3:30.77

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2020	1500m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Nairobi, KEN	3:34.31

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2018	1500m	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	3:32.37

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Tim (worldathletics.org, 11 Sep 2019)

Listening to gospel and reggae music. (sde.co.ke, 14 Jan 2019)

Occupation:

Athlete, Businessperson, Farmer, Prison Worker, Real Estate Developer

Languages spoken:

Rongai Athletics Club [KEN] / Kenyan Prisons [KEN]

Bernard Ouma [Rongai], KEN

Sporting relatives:

His uncle was a national-level 5000m and 10,000m runner in Kenya. (worldathletics.org, 11 Sep 2019)

2015 for Kenya (timothycheruiyot.com, 28 Nov 2019)

He sustained an injury in late 2018 that affected his training for three months. (timothycheruiyot.com, 28 Nov 2019)

He began running to and from his primary school. He began competing regionally in Kenya when he was in high school. (reuters.com, 28 Nov 2019)

After running as a child, local coach Jonathan Bellion ensured that he started to pursue the sport seriously and devised a diet and a training plan for him. "He taught me how to run." (reuters.com, 28 Nov 2019)

To win a gold medal at the Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. (worldathletics.org, 11 Sep 2019)

Winning a gold medal in the 1500m at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. (timothycheruiyot.com, 28 Nov 2019)

US athlete Allyson Felix. (sde.co.ke, 14 Jan 2019)

Philosophy:

"As a professional athlete, we must have the biggest goals and a vision for how to get there." (worldathletics.org, 11 Sep 2019)

In 2018 and 2019 he was one of the nominees for World Athletics' World Athlete of the Year Award. (timothycheruiyot.com, 28 Nov 2019)

General Interest

General
DIFFICULT DEBUT
He made his international debut at the 2015 World Relay Championships in the Bahamas. He was criticised in Kenya for going out too fast in the distance medley and losing out to the United States of America, whose team set a world record. Kenya had a three-second advantage going into his leg. "It was amazing but also nerve-racking. I was young and inexperienced but I also had a lot of adrenaline. I was told by the team coaches that I'd be running the anchor leg and my goal was to bring the baton home in a world record. It was a lot of pressure. Looking back, of course I know that I went out too fast. Ben Blankenship [US athlete] was a great competitor that day and he and his teammates deserved the world record. I was still really pleased to get silver, but people at home blamed me for not getting gold. It was quite difficult for me." (worldathletics.org, 11 Sep 2019)

BUSINESSES
Outside of athletics he manages two businesses. "I own real estate and farm [businesses]. I grow potatoes and cabbages on a large scale. I have erected rental houses in Bomet, Kenya." (olympicchannel.com, 08 Jun 2020; sde.co.ke, 14 Jan 2019)

Social Media

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Timothy-Cheruiyot-163128584348926
https://instagram.com/tim_cheruiyot
https://twitter.com/tim_cheruiyot
Athlete Website: http://timothycheruiyot.com/

Legend

:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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