Wilfred Kirochi (born 12 December 1969) is a former

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who won a silver medal at the 1991 World Championships in

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in the

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event. Previously Kirochi had won two World Junior Championship titles in 1986 and 1988 (where he defeated future world and Olympic champion

Noureddine Morceli Noureddine Morceli (, ''Nūr ud-Dīn Mursilī''; born February 28, 1970) is a retired Algerian middle-distance runner. The winner of the 1500 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Morceli won three straight gold medals at that distance at the Wor ...

). In 1990, Kirochi also won the silver medal at the

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in Auckland behind Peter Elliott. Kirochi did not qualify for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, as he did not finish in the top three at the Kenyan trials in Nairobi. However, just prior to the Olympics, he won meets in Oslo and Nice, where he set a temporary world season's best. Later in the season, he improved his personal best to 3:32.49.

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* 1969 births Living people Kenyan male middle-distance runners Kenyan male cross country runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Kenya World Athletics Championships medalists Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Kenya Commonwealth Games athletes for Kenya Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games African Games silver medalists for Kenya African Games silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1987 All-Africa Games World Athletics U20 Championships winners Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games 20th-century Kenyan sportsmen Commonwealth Games silver medallists in athletics {{Kenya-athletics-bio-stub