Kipchoge Hezekiah Keino (born 17 January 1940) is a retired Kenyan track and field athlete.

A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Keino was among the first in a long line of successful middle and long distance runners to come from the country and has helped and inspired many of his countrymen and women to become the athletics force that they are today.

[7] He began his international career at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia where he came eleventh in the three miles.

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, he won the 1500 metres gold medal (defeating American favourite and world record holder Jim Ryun by 20 metres, the largest winning margin in the history of the event)[8] and 5000 m silver medal.

[11] Keino resides on a farm in Eldoret, Kenya where he controls and runs a charitable organization for orphans.