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In the 800 m final at the 1984 Summer Olympics he had finished fourth.
athletics competitor middle-distance runner
In the 800 m final at the 1984 Summer Olympics he had finished fourth.
His victory in the 1991 final was unexpected. He sprinted past Paul Ereng and Jose Luiz Barbosa on the final straight. He travelled to the World Championships in Stuttgart and looked strong in the heats and semi-finals.
However, in the final he lacked the finishing kick that had earned him the gold medal in Tokyo two years before.
Konchellah"s World Championships record of 1:43.06 minimum (1987) is still unbroken. In Sebastian Coe"s world record of 1:41:73 in Florence, 1981, Konchellah set the early pace.
Konchellah continued his career until the late 90s. Billy"s younger brother Patrick Konchellah is also a former successful 800 metres runner.
Billy Konchellah went to Jamhuri Primary and Upper Hill Secondary schools, both located in Nairobi.
Later, he got an athletics scholarship in the United States and left there at age nineteen. He graduated with a degree in business administration from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. After his running career Konchellah moved to Oulu, Finland.
In 2004 he was acquitted of rape charges in the United Kingdom. He was deported from the United Kingdom and extradited to Finland to face charges that he drugged and raped two Finnish girls in 2002.
One of the girls had been under 16, which is the age of consent in Finland. In 2005 he was convicted of two rapes, sexual exploitation of a child, and a drug crime and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
He was released from prison in 2006. Konchellah could face additional rape charges in Scotland, where two women have alleged that he raped them in 2003.