David Rudisha

David Lekuta Rudisha, MBS is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. He is a two-time back-to-back Olympic champion from the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics, a two-time World champion from the 2011 and 2015 World Championships in Athletics, and a world record holder at the event with a time of 1:40.91, set at the 2012 London Games on 9 August 2012. Rudisha is the first and only person to ever run 800 metres under 1:41, and he holds the three fastest, six of the eight fastest, and half of the twenty fastest times ever run in this event.

17 December 1988

Born on the same birth date (17 December 1988): Craig Sutherland • Grethe Grünberg • Kris Joseph • Liisa Ehrberg

Born on the same birth day (17 December): Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan • Atsedu Tsegay • Bernard Hill • Claire Forlani • Dominic Lawson • James McGaugh • Pat Hill • Thomas Tickell

Born in the same month (December 1988): Adam Eaton (outfielder) • Andrew Goudelock • Angelina Gabueva • Eric Berry • Hayley Williams • Leigh Halfpenny • Lizzie Deignan • Lonah Chemtai Salpeter • Michael Raffl • Ross Bagley • Simon Zenke • Stefanos Athanasiadis • Stephen McGinn • Tim Southee