| Medal record | ||
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Lalang taking World Indoor silver behind Abubaker Kaki |
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| Men's athletics | ||
| Competitor for Kenya | ||
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| Gold | 2010 Delhi | 800 m |
| World Indoor Championships | ||
| Silver | 2010 Doha | 800 m |
| All-Africa Games | ||
| Silver | 2011 Maputo | 800 m |
Boaz Kiplagat Lalang (born February 8, 1989) is a Kenyan middle distance runner, who specialises in the 800 metres.
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At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Lalang barely missed running in the finals of the 800 m.
At the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, he won a silver medal in the 800 m.[1] He ran a mile personal best of 3:56.14 at the Drake Relays, defeating training partner and race favourite Bernard Lagat in the process and went on to lower his time to 3:52.18 in Oslo, Norway.[2]
On August 29, 2010 he ran a personal best of 1:42.95 at the Rieti meeting in second place behind the new world record set by David Rudisha.
He studies Business Administration at Rend Lake College in Illinois. He has been mentored by Kenyan-born American runner Bernard Lagat [3]
| Representing Kenya | |||||
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| Year | Tournament | Venue | Result | Event | |
| 2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar | 2nd | 800 m | |
| Commonwealth Games | New Delhi, India | 1st | 800 m | ||
| 2011 | All-Africa Games | Maputo, Mozambique | 2nd | 800 m | |
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