Beijing - Nancy Jebet Langat gave Kenya a first ever women's 1,500 metres Olympic gold and Wilfred Bungei ended the 16-year wait for another 800m victory at the Beijing Games on SaturdayLangat surged ahead of world champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain on the final back straight to claim gold in a personal best 4 minutes 00.23 minutes a day after her 27th birthday.
Ukrainians Iryna Lishchynska, in 4:01.63, and Nataliya Tobias, in 4:01.78 minutes took silver and bronze. Jamal, who had raised the tempo with 500m to go, faded dramatically to finish fifth.
Bungei, 28, led from start to win the men's 800m in 1:44.65 seconds. Sudan's Ismail Ahmed Ismail took silver in 1:44.70 while Kenyan world champion Alfred Yego had to settle for bronze in 1:44.82 minutes.
The 2004 gold medallist Yuriy Borzakovskiy of Russia and season leader Abubaker Kaki of Algeria had crashed out in the semi-finals.
Bungei's win ended Kenya's gold medal drought in the 800m that stretches back to William Tanui's win in Barcelona in 1992.
Saturday's other finals were the men's 5,000m, 4x400m, javelin, and the women's 4x400m and high jump. The Olympic athletics events are wrapped up with the men's marathon on Sunday.
