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      • Boeting says that Rudisha is not officially retired. “He is contemplating his future,” Boeting says. “That is for him to decide.” But at age 32, almost four years removed from his last competition, it is possible that David Rudisha, the greatest 800-meter runner of them all, has run his last race.
  1. David Lekuta Rudisha, MBS (born 17 December 1988) is a retired Kenyan middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. He is a two-time back-to-back Olympic champion from the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics , a two-time World champion from the 2011 and 2015 World Championships in Athletics , and a world record holder at the event ...

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  3. Jul 1, 2023 · David Rudisha on his greatest achievement and retirement regrets. Overcoming the injury, Rudisha defied the odds and returned to capture the 2015 world title and defend his Olympic title at Rio 2016. That made him the first man to defend an Olympic men’s 800m gold medal since New Zealand’s Peter Snell in 1964.

  4. Apr 23, 2022 · David Rudisha represented Kenya in the Olympics. The record still stands today, and nobody has been able to beat it since. He has won gold medals at several 800m events in different championships.

    • 35 years old (as of July 2021)
    • David Lekuta Rudisha
    • December 17, 1988
    • David Rudisha
  5. May 18, 2021 · Kenya’s David Rudisha, the 800m world record holder and winner of the last two Olympic titles, will not compete in 2021, his agent Michel Boeting confirmed to LetsRun.com. Rudisha, 32, has...

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  6. Oct 2, 2019 · David Rudisha's name means to return in Swahili. And that is exactly what the Kenyan is planning to do: Return in style and win a third Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The world 800m record holder has not competed for 18 months due to a misdiagnosed injury, a major car crash, and personal issues including his father's death and ...

  7. Feb 3, 2019 · Double Olympic champion David Rudisha is not done with athletics yet. The 800m world record holder and two-time world champ has been been out of competition for over a year with injury. Now on the comeback trail, the Kenyan spoke exclusively to Olympic Channel about his rehabilitation, as well as his ambition to win the 2019 World Championships ...

  8. Jan 31, 2011 · David Rudisha, the man who set two World 800 metre records in the space on one week, lives with his wife Lizzy, a student in human resources, and daughter Charin in a one bedroom house outside Eldoret, the “Capital City of Running”.

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