Benson Kiplagat Seurei (born 27 March 1984) is a Kenyan-born Bahraini

middle-distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, ranging from 500 metres up to . The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distanc ...

competing primarily in the

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1500-metre run is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilomet ...

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Kenya Standard (10 August 2016). Retrieved on 2017-02-05. He represented his country in the 1500 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without advancing from the first round. In 2019, he competed in the men's marathon at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global sport of athletics, athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athleti ...

held in Doha, Qatar. He did not finish his race.

Competition record

¹Representing Asia-Pacific

Personal bests

Outdoor *

800 metres The 800 metres, or 800 meters (American and British English spelling differences#-re.2C -er, US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of a ...

– 1:45.67 (Bottrop 2012) *

1000 metres The 1000 metres, 1 kilometer run, or 1K run is an uncommon middle-distance running event in track and field competitions. It consists of two and a half laps around an outdoor 400 m track, or five laps around an indoor 200 m track. The 1000 ...

– 2:16.39 (Linz 2012) *

– 3:31.61 (Monaco 2012) *

One mile The mile run (1,760 yards, 5,280 feet, or exactly 1,609.344 metres) is a middle-distance foot race. The history of the mile run event began in England, where it was used as a distance for gambling races. It survived track and field' ...

– 3:56.78 (Heidelberg 2013) *

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000 m sho ...

– 7:40.56 (Zagreb 2013) *

3000 metres steeplechase The 3000 metres steeplechase or 3000-meter steeplechase (usually Abbreviation, abbreviated as ) is the most common distance for the steeplechase (athletics), steeplechase in track and field. It is an obstacle race over the distance of the 3000 met ...

– 8:37.3 (Nairobi 2006) Indoor *

– 1:48.37 (Ludwigshafen 2012) *

– 2:20.14 (Prague 2009) *

– 3:37.08 (Doha 2016) *

– 7:48.96 (Linz 2012)

References

1984 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Bahraini male middle-distance runners Kenyan male steeplechase runners Kenyan emigrants to Bahrain World Athletics Championships athletes for Bahrain Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games Kenyan male middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Bahrain Asian Games athletes for Bahrain Naturalized citizens of Bahrain Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Bahrain West Asian Athletics Championships winners 21st-century Kenyan sportsmen {{Bahrain-athletics-bio-stub