Remembering Kiptanui’s historic sub-eight-minute steeplechase record

Moses Kiptanui is congratulated late 19 August 1992 in Barcelona, Spain after setting a new world record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 8 minutes 2.08 seconds at the Zurich track and field meet. Kiptanui, who missed the Olympics, scored his second world record mark in three days.

Historic sub-eight-minute steeplechase record gave Kenyan legend world fame in 1995

On its 25th anniversary, World Athletics turns back the hands of time to revisit Moses’ historic moment in Zurich.