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{{short description|Kenyan runner}}
{{MedalTableTop|Augustine Choge Kiprono.jpg|200px|Augustine Choge}}
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Athletics (sport)|athletics]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{KEN}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics|World Indoor Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships|2012 Istanbul]]|[[2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres|3000 m]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships|2016 Portland]]|[[2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres|3000 m]]}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[IAAF World Indoor Tour|World Indoor Tour]]}}
{{Medal|Winner|[[2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour|2016]]|3000 m}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics|World Junior Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold |[[2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics|2004 Grosseto]]|[[2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres|5000 m]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics|World Youth Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics|2003 Sherbrooke]] | 3000 m}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Melbourne]] | [[5000 m]]}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Cross Country Championships]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships|2005 Saint-Galmier]]|[[2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race|Junior race]]}}
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'''Augustine Kiprono Choge''' (born 21 January 1987) is a Kenyan [[Middle distance track event|middle distance]] and [[Long-distance track event|long distance]] [[Running|runner]].

He won world youth and junior titles on the track in 2003 and 2004, eventually going on to set a [[List of junior world records in athletics|world junior record]] for the [[3000 metres]] in 2005. In his final year as a junior he won the [[IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Cross Country]] Junior title.

He claimed the [[5000 metres]] [[gold medal]] at the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]], but began to focus more on the [[1500 metres]] from then on. He reached the 1500&nbsp;m finals at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] and the [[2009 World Championships in Athletics]]. Choge broke the long-standing [[4×1500 metres relay]] [[List of world records in athletics|world record]] with a Kenyan team of runners in September 2009.

==Career==
Choge was born in 1987 to a family of small-scale farmers at [[Kipsigak]], near [[Kapsabet]] in the [[Nandi District]] of [[Rift Valley Province, Kenya|Rift Valley Province]], [[Kenya]].<ref name=Focus>Manners, John (2005-03-14). [http://www.iaaf.org/news/athletes/newsid=28866.html Focus on Athletes - Augustine Choge]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023022838/http://www.iaaf.org/news/athletes/newsid%3D28866.html |date=October 23, 2012 }}. [[IAAF]]. Retrieved on 2011-02-06.</ref>

He won national secondary schools [[10,000 metres]] in 2002. At the [[2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships]] he finished fourth in the Junior race and won [[gold medal]] as a part of the junior team. He competed at the 2003 [[East African Youth Championships]] in May in [[Addis Ababa]] and won three gold medals, in [[800 metres|800]], [[1500 metres|1500]] and [[3000 metres]]. At the [[2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics]] he won the 3000 metres race. He holds the 3000 metres [[List of junior world records in athletics|world junior record]] set in May 2005 in [[Doha]],<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/recbycat/location=O/recordtype=WR/event=0/age=J/area=0/sex=M/records.html IAAF World Junior records]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019111759/http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/recbycat/location%3DO/recordtype%3DWR/event%3D0/age%3DJ/area%3D0/sex%3DM/records.html |date=October 19, 2012 }}</ref> the previous record (7:30.67) was held by [[Kenenisa Bekele]], set in 2001.<ref>IAAF, November 17, 2009: [http://www.iaaf.org/news/printer,newsid=32637.htmx World Records ratified]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023050607/http://www.iaaf.org/news/printer%2Cnewsid%3D32637.htmx |date=October 23, 2012 }}</ref>

Choge graduated from [[Kabikwen Secondary School]] in 2004. At the [[2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics]] he won [[5000 metres]] race. At the [[2004 IAAF World Athletics Final]] he was third in 5000 metres. At the [[2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships]] he won the junior race and junior team race. At the [[2005 IAAF World Athletics Final]] he finished third in 3000 metres.<ref name=Focus/>

On 20 March 2006, he won the men's 5000 metres event at the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]] with a time of 12 minutes, 56.41 seconds.<ref>[http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18542403%255E2862,00.html]{{Dead link|date=August 2009}}</ref> This is the current [[List of Commonwealth Games records in athletics|Commonwealth Games record]].

Augustine Choge competed at the [[2008 Beijing Olympics]] and finished tenth in the 1500&nbsp;m final. He came fifth over 1500&nbsp;m on his debut at the [[2009 World Championships in Athletics]] in August. In 2009 he was part of the Kenyan team that set a new the 4 x 1500 metres relay [[List of world records in athletics|world record]], 14:36.23 minutes. Other members of the team were [[William Biwott Tanui]], [[Gideon Gathimba]] and [[Geoffrey Rono]]. The previous record in this rarely competed event was set by [[West Germany]] in 1977, making it the oldest world record when it was broken.<ref>IAAF, September 4, 2009: [http://www.iaaf.org/GLE09/news/newsid=54217.html Oldest World record goes down in Brussels as Kenya dominates 4x1500 - ÅF Golden League]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023010122/http://www.iaaf.org/GLE09/news/newsid%3D54217.html |date=October 23, 2012 }}</ref>

He ran the fastest qualifying time in the 3000&nbsp;m at the [[2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships]], but failed to repeat his form in the final and finished in eleventh place.<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/documents/pdf/4144/AT-3000-M-f--1--.RS1.pdf 2010 World Indoor Championships - Men's 3000 m final] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604200405/http://www.iaaf.org/documents/pdf/4144/AT-3000-M-f--1--.RS1.pdf |date=June 4, 2011 }}. [[IAAF]]. Retrieved on 2011-02-06.</ref> He took his first win of the [[2010 IAAF Diamond League]] in the 1500&nbsp;m at the [[Shanghai Golden Grand Prix]] and ended the year as second in the Diamond rankings behind [[Asbel Kiprop]]. The start of the 2011 season saw him move up to the fourth fastest runner of all-time over the 3000&nbsp;m indoors, running a time of 7:28.00 minutes while event winner [[Yenew Alamirew]] became the world's third fastest man.<ref>Gordon, Ed (2011-02-06). [http://www.iaaf.org/WIM11/news/newsid=59224.html Oliver, Alamirew post scintillating marks in Stuttgart]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426200526/http://www.iaaf.org/WIM11/news/newsid%3D59224.html |date=April 26, 2011 }}. [[IAAF]]. Retrieved on 2011-02-06.</ref>

In October 2019, Choge joined the pacemaker team for the Ineos 1:59 Challenge to help fellow Kenyan athlete [[Eliud Kipchoge]] run a sub-two hour marathon distance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ineos159challenge.com/news/augustine-choge/|title=Augustine Choge|last=INEOS|website=www.ineos159challenge.com|language=English|access-date=2019-09-16}}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Choge is managed by [[James Templeton]] and coached by [[Colm O'Connell]].<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/olympics/athletics-london-2012/running-the-show-20120615-20fm2.html Running the Show] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115063749/http://www.smh.com.au/olympics/athletics-london-2012/running-the-show-20120615-20fm2.html |date=January 15, 2016 }} Sydney Morning Herald June 16, 2012. Retrieved on 2012-06-23.</ref>

==Achievements==
{| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}}
|-
!colspan="6"|Representing {{KEN}}
|-
|rowspan=2|2003
|[[2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Cross Country Championships]] 
|[[Lausanne]], [[Switzerland]]
| 4th
|Junior race (7.92&nbsp;km)
|[[2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race|22:55]]
|-
|[[2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics|World Youth Championships]] 
|[[Sherbrooke]], [[Canada]]
|bgcolor="gold"| 1st
|3000 m
|7:52.53
|-
|rowspan=2|2004
|[[2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics|World Junior Championships]] 
|[[Grosseto]], [[Italy]]
|bgcolor="gold"| 1st
|5000 m
|[[2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres|13:28.93]]
|-
|[[2004 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]]
|[[Monte Carlo]], [[Monaco]]
|bgcolor="cc9966"| 3rd
|5000 m
|13:09.00
|-
|rowspan=2|2005
|[[2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Cross Country Championships]] 
|[[St Etienne]], [[France]]
|bgcolor="gold"| 1st
|Junior race (8&nbsp;km)
|[[2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race|23:59]]
|-
|[[2005 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]]
|[[Monte Carlo]], [[Monaco]]
|bgcolor="cc9966"| 3rd
|3000 m
|7:39.99
|-
|rowspan=4|2006
|rowspan=2|[[2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Cross Country Championships]] 
|rowspan=2|[[Fukuoka, Fukuoka|Fukuoka]], [[Japan]]
| 7th
|Short race (4&nbsp;km)
|[[2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race|11:03]]
|-
|bgcolor="gold"| 1st
|Team
|21 pts
|-
|[[Athletics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]] 
|[[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]
|bgcolor="gold"| 1st
|5000 m
|[[Athletics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games – Men's 5000 metres|12:56.41]]
|-
|[[2006 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]]
|[[Stuttgart]], [[Germany]]
|bgcolor="cc9966"| 3rd
|1500 m
|3:33.37
|-
|rowspan=2|2008
|[[2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Cross Country Championships]]
|[[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]]
| 12th
|Long race (12&nbsp;km)
|[[2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race|35:26]]
|-
|[[Olympic Games]]
|[[Beijing]], [[China]]
| 9th
|[[Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres|1500 m]]
|3:35.50
|-
|rowspan=2|2009
|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Berlin]], [[Germany]]
| 5th
|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres|1500 m]]
|3:36.53
|-
|[[2009 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]] 
|[[Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]
|bgcolor="cc9966"| 3rd
|1500 m
|3:35.46 
|-
|2010
|[[2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships|World Indoor Championships]]
|[[Doha]], Qatar
|11th
|[[2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres|3000 m]]
|7:53.42
|-
|2012
|[[2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres|World Indoor Championships]]
|[[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]]
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|3000 m
|7:41.77
|}

==Personal bests==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Event
!Time 
!Venue
!Date
|-
|[[800 metres]]
|1:44.86
|[[Ostrava]], Czech Republic
|17 June 2009
|-
|[[1000 metres]] (indoor)
|2:17.79
|[[Prague]], Czech Republic
|26 February 2009
|-
|[[1500 metres]]
|3:29.47
|[[Berlin]], Germany
|14 June 2009
|-
|[[1500 metres]] (indoor)
|3:33.23
|[[Birmingham]], England
|19 February 2011
|-
|[[2000 metres]] (indoor)
|4:56.30
|[[Aubière]], France
|9 February 2007
|-
|[[One mile]]
|3:50.01
|[[London]], England
|27 July 2013
|-
|[[3000 metres]]
|7:28.76
|[[Doha]], Qatar
|6 May 2011
|-
|[[3000 metres]] (indoor)
|7:28.00
|[[Stuttgart]], Germany
|5 February 2011
|-
|[[5000 metres]]
|12:53.66
|[[Rome]], Italy
|8 July 2005
|-
|[[10,000 metres]]
|28:22.8
|[[Nairobi]], Kenya
|22 April 2016
|-
|[[Half marathon]]
|59:26
|[[Ras Al Khaimah]], UAE
|10 February 2017
|- 
|[[Marathon]]
|2:20:53
|[[New York City]], USA
|7 November 2021
|}
*<small>All information taken from World Athletics profile.</small>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{World Athletics}}
*[http://www.iaaf.org/news/athletes/newsid=28866.html IAAF - Focus on Athletes - Augustine Choge]

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[[Category:1987 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Kenyan male middle-distance runners]]
[[Category:Kenyan male long-distance runners]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Kenya]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes for Kenya]]
[[Category:World record holders in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:People from Nandi County]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Rift Valley Province]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics]]
[[Category:Kenyan male cross country runners]]
[[Category:Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games]]
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