World Record once again: Rudisha with World Best Number 15 in ISTAF History

This year the Kenyan David Rudisha ran a world record in the 800m at ISTAF. The 21-year-old’s 1:41.09 bettered by two-hundredths-of-a-second the time of the Kenyan-born Dane Wilson Kipketer which had stood for 13 years. Rudisha had already won the World junior title at the distance in 2006 and would go on to break his own world record in winning the first of two Olympic golds in London in 2012, retaining the 800 title in Rio four years later and also win the World championship twice. It was a day of triumph for Kenya in the men’s 800m as Boaz Lalang and Abraham Kiplagat completed the podium clean sweep in the meeting’s 69^th edition.