USA Championships
2008 Olympic Trials 1,500m (3:40.37) and 5,000m (13:27.47)
Four-time USA Outdoor 5,000m champion – 2006 (13:14.32); 2007 (13:45.87); 2010 (13:54.08); 2011 (13:23.06)
Two-time USA Indoor 3,000m champion – 2010 (8:12.60); 2011 (7:57.17)
2006 USA Outdoor 1,500m champion (3:39.29)
2011 USA Outdoor 1,500m runner-up (3:47.96)
International Championships
2004 Olympic 1,500m silver medalist (3:34.30)
2000 Olympic 1,500m bronze medalist (3:32.44)
Two-time World Indoor 3,000m gold medalist – 2004 (7:56.34); 2010 (7:37.97)
2007 World Outdoor 1,500m (3:34.77) and 5,000m (13:45.87) gold medalist
2009 World Outdoor 5,000m silver medalist (13:17.33) and 1,500m bronze medalist (3:36.30)
2001 World Outdoor 1,500m silver medalist (3:31.10)
2002 World Cup 1,500m champion (3:31.20)
Collegiate Championships
1999 NCAA Indoor mile (3:55.65) and 3,000m (7:54.92) champion
1999 NCAA Outdoor 5,000m champion (14:01.09)
Four-time PAC-10 champion
Awards and Honors
American indoor record holder in the 1,500m (3:33.34); mile (3:49.89); 3,000m (7:32.43)
American outdoor record holder in the 1,500m (3:29.30); 3,000m (7:29.00); 5,000m (12:53.60)
11-time NCAA All-American in cross country and track and field
1999 NCAA Indoor Male Athlete of the Year
1999 PAC-10 Men’s Track & Field Co-Athlete of the Year
About Bernard
Bernard Lagat has nearly as many American records (six) as he has wins in the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games (8). His 2010 season included becoming the first ever American to win both the 3,000m and 5,000m at the IAAF Continental Cup while setting the American record in the indoor and outdoor 3,000m and outdoor 5,000m. Lagat now stands alone in the Millrose Games record book with his eight Wanamaker Mile wins and surpassed Irish legend Eamonn Coghlan’s previous best total of seven wins. Lagat donated all his bonus earnings during the 2010 indoor season to the Haiti Relief Fund. In 2007 Lagat won the first ever gold medal by an American in the 1,500m at the World Outdoor Championships and the first Olympic or World Championships gold for the country since 1908. He also became the first man ever to win the 1,500m-5,000m double at World Outdoors, and the first American to win a World Championship medal of any kind at 5,000m. And in winning both races at the 2006 USA Outdoor Championships, he become the first man ever to pull off the historic double. In 2006 Lagat posted the five-fastest 1,500m times by an American. He also had the fastest 3,000m and 5,000m times that season in the country. Lagat won a pair of 1,500m Olympic medals for his native Kenya before changing his national affiliation to the United States. A U.S. resident since 1996, Lagat officially became eligible to compete for the United States one day after the start of the 2007 World Outdoor Championships. “I thought long and hard before changing my nationality but… I have to look to my future after my running career has come to an end,” Lagat said. In growing up on his family's farm in Kapsabet, Kenya, Lagat sprinted a mile and a half to school each morning, and the same distance back. He began studying at Jomo Kenyatta University College of Agriculture and Technology when he became serious about running competitively. Lagat left Kenya for the United States when he received a scholarship from Washington State University in Pullman. He earned BA’s from Washington State in Management Information Systems, and Decision Science (Econometrics). Married to Gladys Tom and they have one son (Miika Kimutai Lagat) and one daughter (Gianna).
Results
2011: USA Outdoor 1,500m runner-up (3:47.96); USA Outdoor 5,000m champion (13:23.06); USA Indoor 3,000m champion (7:57.17); 2nd in 5,000m at Monaco (12:53.60AR); 2nd in 5,000m at Adidas Grand Prix (13:05.46); 3rd in 1,500m in Paris (3:33.11); Pre Classic 2-mile champion (8:13.62); 2nd in 5,000m at adidas Grand Prix (13:05.46).
2010: USA Outdoor 5,000m champion (13:54.08); USA Indoor 3,000m champion (8:12.60); Wanamaker Mile champion at Millrose Games (3:56.34); 1st at Boston Reebok Indoor Games 5,000m (13:11.50AR); 3rd at Oslo (12:54:12); 7th at Monaco in 1,500m (3:32.51); 1st at Continental Cup 3,000m (7:54.75) and 5,000m (7:54.75)
2009: 3rd in 800m opening round at USA Outdoors (1:48.59); 1st in 3,000m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (7:35.92); 2nd at Reebok Grand Prix (13:03.06); 1st Millrose Games Wanamaker Mile (3:51.34); 1st at London (3:52.71); 1st at Tanger (3:32.56); 2nd at Paris (7:33.15)
2008: 6th in 1,500m semifinals at Olympic Games (3:37.79); Olympic Trials 5,000m (13:27.47) and 1,500m (3:40.37) champion; 1st in 2-mile at Nike Prefontaine Classic (8:12.45); 1st in 1,500m at adidas Track Classic (3:35.14); 1st at Rieti (3:32.75)
2007: World Outdoor 1,500m (3:34.77) and 5,000m (13:45.87) gold medalist; USA Outdoor Champion in 5,000m (13:30.73) and 3rd in 1,500m (3:35.55); 1st Millrose Games’ Wanamaker Mile (3:54.26); 1st in 3,000m at Birmingham (7:32.43iAR); Runner-up at Reebok Grand Prix mile (3:53.88); 2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic in Bowerman Mile (3:50.56); 3rd in 1,500m at Sheffield (3:36.24); 1st in 1,500m at London (3:35.71); 3rd in 1,000m at Stockholm (2:16.25)
2006: USA Outdoor 1,500m (3:39.29) and 5,000m (13:14.32) champion; 2nd at adidas Classic (3:32.94); 1st at Nike Prefontaine Classic Bowerman Mile (3:51.53); 1st at Rieti (3:29.68);1st at Rethymno (7:34.41); 1st at London (12:59.22); 3rd at Meeting Gaz de France Paris Saint-Denis (3:31.48); 3rd at Athletissima (3:32.19)
2005: 1st at Rieti 1,500m (3:29.30AR); Powered by Tyson Invitational mile champion (3:49.89AR) and 1,500m (3:33.34AR) champion; 2nd at Oslo (3:48.38); 1st at World Athletics Final 3,000m (7:38.00); 1st at Wanamaker Mile in a Millrose and MSG record (3:52.87); 1st at Berlin 5,000m (12:59.29)
2004: Olympic 1,500m silver medalist (3:34.30); World Indoor Champs 3,000m gold medalist (7:56.34); 1st at Brussels (3:36.24); 1st at Zurich ( 3:27.40)
2003: World Indoor silver medalist (3:42.62); 1st at Millrose Games’ Wanamaker Mile (4:00.36); 2nd at Zurich (3:30.55); 1st at Stockholm (3:32.99); 1st at Modesto (3:40.66)
2002: 1st at World Cup (3:31.20); 2nd at Grand Prix Final (3:30.54); 1st at Stockholm (3:31.38); 1st at African Championships (3:38.11); 2nd at Monaco (3:27.91)
2001: Silver medalist at World Outdoor Championships 1,500m (3:31.10); ran third-fastest 1,500m in history at Rieti (3:26.34)
2000: Olympic Games bronze medalist (3:32.44); 1st at Mt. SAC (3:54.97); 2nd at Grand Prix Final (3:36.88)
1999: NCAA Outdoor 5,000m champ (14:01.09); NCAA Indoor mile champ (3:55.65); NCAA Indoor 3,000m champ (7:54.92); 3rd at Zurich (3:30.56)
USA/World Rankings and Personal Bests
2011: Indoor bests – mile, 3:59.01 (No. 10 in the USA, No. 18 in the world); 3,000m, 7:39.35 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 9 in the world); Outdoor bests – 1,500m, 3:33.11 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 18 in the world); mile, 3:51.38 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 10 in the world); 3,000m, 7:32.13 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 8 in the world); 5,000m, 12:53.60 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 2 in the world)
2010: Indoor bests – 1,500m, 3:35.49 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 5 in the world); mile, 3:56.34 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 6 in the world); 3,000m, 7:37.97 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 10 in the world); 5,000m, 13:11.50 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 4 in the world); Outdoor bests – 1,500m, 3:32.51 (No. 4 in the USA, No. 13 in the world); mile, 3:54.36 (No. 5 in the USA, No. 21 in the world); 3,000m, 7:29.00 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 3 in the world); 5,000m, 12:54.12 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 7 in the world)
2009: Indoor bests – 1,500m, 3:36.82 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 8 in the world); mile, 3:51.34 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); 3,000m (No. 1 in the USA, No. 5 in the world); Outdoor bests – 1,500m, 3:32.56 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 13 in the world); mile, 3:52.71 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 10 in the world); 3,000m, 7:33.15 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 15 in the world); 5,000m, 13:03.06 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 20 in the world)
2008: Indoor bests – 1,500m, 3:35.23 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 2 in the world); mile, 3:57.21 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 3 in the world); 3,000m, 7:34.65 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 4 in the world); Outdoor bests – 1,000m, 2:16.18 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 5 in the world); 1,500m, 3:32.75 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 13 in the world); mile, 3:55.20 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 15 in the world); 3,000m, 7:43.73 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 36 in the world); 5,000m, 13:16.29 (No. 1 in the USA)
2007: Indoor bests – 1,000m, 2:18.12 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); mile, 3:54.26 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); 3,000m, 7:32.43 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 2 in the world); Outdoor bests – 1,000m, 2:16.25 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 3 in the world); 1,500m, 3:33.85 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 18 in the world); mile, 3:50.56 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 3 in the world); 3,000m, 7:38.77 (No. 3 in the USA, No. 25 in the world)
2006: Indoor bests – 1,500m, 3:39.4 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 7 in the world); mile, 3:56.85 (No. 2 in the USA, No. 5 in the world); Outdoor bests – 1,500m, 3:29.68 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 3 in the world); mile, 3:51.53 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 3 in the world); 3,000m, 7:34.41 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 12 in the world); 5,000m, 12:59.22 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 17 in the world)
2005: Outdoor bests – 1,500m, 3:29.30 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); mile, 3:48.38 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 2 in the world); 3,000m, 7:38.00 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 15 in the world); 5,000m, 12:59.29 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 15 in the world)
2004: Indoor bests* - 1,500m, 3:33.34 (No. 2 in the world); mile, 3:49.89 (No. 1 in the world); Outdoor bests – 1,500m, 3:29.30 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 1 in the world); mile, 3:48.38 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 2 in the world); 3,000, 7:38.00 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 15 in the world); 5,000m, 12:59.29 (No. 1 in the USA, No. 15 in the world)
2003: Indoor bests* - 1,500m, 3:37.07 (No. 6 in the world); mile, 3:59.72 (No. 10 in the world); Outdoor bests* - 1,500m, 3:30.55 (No. 3 in the world); mile, 3:50.21 (No. 3 in the world)
2002: Indoor bests* - 1,500m, 3:40.28 (No. 18 in the world); mile, 3:55.07 (No. 1 in the world); Outdoor bests* - 3:27.91 (No. 2 in the world); mile, 3:52.63 (No. 11 in the world); 5,000m, 13:19.14 (No. 46 in the world)
2001: Indoor bests* - 800m, 1:48.81 (No. 50 in the world); 1,500m, 3:38.82 (No. 19 in the world); mile, 3:57.61 (No. 16 in the world); Outdoor bests* - 1,500m, 3:26.34
2000: Outdoor bests* – 1,500m (3:28.51)
1999: Outdoor bests* – 1,500m (3:30.56)
1998: Outdoor bests* – 1,500m (3:34.48)
*competed for his native Kenya