Haron lagat biography

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Haron Lagat is a Kenyan-American distance runner who lives and trains in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

He is hoping, at 36-years-of-age, to qualify and compete for the US at the 2019 Doha World Athletics Championships as well as the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

This summer is one of the last chances he has to compete in a major global championship wearing the red, white and blue.

In 2016, he was caught in the middle of a panic-freeze on transfers of allegiance, a term used to describe athletes who switch countries that they wish to represent in international competition.

The transfer of allegiance infractions appeared to be perpetrated mostly by Bahrain as they apparently paid Kenyans to run for them by automatically offering Bahraini citizenship.

At the time, there was a moratorium that should not have applied to Lagat, who was educated in the US and began to serve in the US Army, but he was.

The governing body the IAAF held