Mr Paul K. TERGAT

Education

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, Kapkawa Boys High School, Barnigo County, Kenya (1989)

Career

Kenya Air Force (1991-2013) - Rank: Captain. Board member of a number of learning and tertiary institutions in Kenya; Council Member of the Laikipia University College (2010-2012); Founder of the Kenyan all sports annual awards, SOYA awards; Founder and Patron of the Baringo Half Marathon; Member of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Athletes’ Commission (2005); Athletes’ Representative, Kenyan National Olympic Committee (2012-2013); Founder, Paul Tergat Foundation

Sports practised

Athletics, basketball, volleyball

Sports career

Athletics- track (3,000m, 5,000m and 10,000m), cross country, road racing ( 10km, 21km - half marathon and 42km - full marathon); Olympic Games: silver medallist, 10,000m men, Atlanta 1996; silver medallist, 10,000 m men, Sydney 2000; World records: marathon: 2:03:55 (Berlin, 2003); half marathon- 59:17 (Milan, 1998); 10,000m (Brussels- 1997 26:27.85); five times World Cross Country Champion (1995-1999)

Publications

Paul Tergat: Running to the Limit, published in 2005; publisher: Oxford: Meyer & MeyerSport (UK) Ltd

Awards and distinctions

UN World Food Programme (WFP) Ambassador against Hunger (2005-2014); UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Champion (2010-2015); Hall of Fame, Bupa Great North Run, Newcastle, United Kingdom (2013); XVII Premio International Fair Play Award, Rome, Italy (2013); Honorary Doctorate Degree of the Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya (2011); Honorary Doctorate Degree (Doctor Philosophie Honoris Causa), Faculty of Community and Health Sciences of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (2010)

IOC History

Member of the following Commissions: Entourage (2014-2015), Press (2014-2015), International Relations (2014-2015), Sustainability and Heritage (2015-2017), Olympic Education (2015-), Athletes' Entourage (2015-2020), Audit Committee (2017-), Digital and Technology (2017-2019), Coordination for the Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026 (2018-), Future Host Commission for the Games of the Olympiad (2019-), Board Member of the Olympic Refugee Foundation (2021-), Athletes’ (2021-)