Bernard Langat to compete at the 2012 Visa Championship Series – Athletics news
Track and field events will return to premier sports and entertainment venue for the 99th year on Saturday, January 28, in the Madison Square Garden, New York, United States of America, as USA Track & Field’s 2012 Visa Championship Series promises
to deliver a show of paragon athletes in their respective disciplines.
Bernard Lagat, notified as the Garden legend, will make a return to the venue at the Championships. Langat is sure to headline the men’s Mile at the USA Track and Field meet.
Two-time Olympic medallist and American record holder, with eight one-mile race wins to his credit, Bernard Langat said, “Madison Square Garden feels like home to me, and I am so happy to be coming back in 2012. I can't think of a better place to kick off
the Olympic year. I look forward to seeing the New York track fans who have supported me for so many years, many new fans in the new Garden.”
Langat’s first American indoor record came in 2005, at Fayetteville, Arkansas, as he completed a mile race in a decent time of 3 minutes and 49.89 seconds. Langat also claimed another record in the 1500 metres category, when he finished the distance in a
time of 3 minutes and 33.34 seconds.
His extravagant performance replaced the records in respective categories, set by Steve Scott, who set the previous American indoor mile record of 3 minutes and 51.8 seconds, in 1981, and the previous American 1500 metre indoor record held by Jeff Atkinson,
who ran 3 minutes and 38.12 seconds, in 1989.
Langat continued with the same pace and won the silver medal in the 5000 metres category with a well-attained time of 13 minutes and 23.64 seconds, at the World Championships in Daegu, Korea, this year.
The meet is going to be the first one after the venue’s completion of the first phase of the building’s historic, top-to-bottom, three-year transformation. The competition will be the year’s first ever major athletics’ event in United States, as the 2012
Olympic year gets under way. Critics say that the show will depict best of the sport’s tradition in a streamlined in-stadium and broadcast presentation.
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