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9. Moses Kiptanui is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance athlete who became the first person in the world to run the 3000-meter steeplechase in under eight minutes. This self-coached runner also set a new world record of 7:28.96 in the 3000 meters in Cologne and broke the 5000 meters world record in Rome in 1995.
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