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Wyclife Kinyamal

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Wyclife Kinyamal
Personal information
Full nameWyclife Kinyamal Kisasy
Born (1997-07-02) 2 July 1997 (age 27)
Trans Mara District, Kenya
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight69 kg (152 lb)[2]
Sport
SportAthletics
Event800 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best800 m: 1:42.08 (Paris 2024)
Medal record
Representing  Kenya
Men's athletics
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast 800 m
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 800 m

Wyclife Kinyamal (born 2 July 1997) is a Kenyan male middle-distance runner who competes in the 800 metres. He won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and holds a personal best of 1:42.08 minutes.

Career

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Born in Trans Mara District,[2] he made his first impact regionally at the 2016 East and Central Africa Junior Athletics Championships, winning the 800 m.[3] He placed third at the Kenyan World Junior trials later that year, thus was not picked for the national team.[4] He had initially just focused on the high jump and took up running when he had completed high school at Mogonga Secondary School.[5]

Kinyamal established himself as an elite level runner in the 2017 season with performances on the European track circuit. At the FBK Games he set a personal best of 1:45.65 minutes to place second behind Thijmen Kupers,[6] then won the Palio Città della Quercia in a meeting record of 1:43.94 minutes.[7] The latter performance ranked him seventh in the world on time for that season.[8]

The following year he set an indoor best of 1:46.54 minutes as runner-up at the PSD Bank Meeting.[9] With a second-place finish at the Kenyan Commonwealth Games trials, he earned his first senior international selection. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games he defeated defending champion Nijel Amos in the final to become the Commonwealth champion. This was Kenya's first gold medal of the tournament that year, as his compatriots had thus far failed to win any of the distance events in which the country is traditionally strong.[5] In July he improved his PB to 1:43.12 taking third at the Diamond League meeting at London.[10]

International competitions

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Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2016 East African Junior Championships Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 1st 800 m 1:50.17
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 1st 800 m 1:45.11
2022 World Championships Eugene, United States 8th 800 m 1:47.07
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 13th (h) 4 × 400 m relay 3:01.41
2024 Olympic Games Paris, France 11th (sf) 800 m 1:45.29

References

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  1. ^ "KINYAMAL Wyclife". Paris 2024 Olympics. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Wycliffe Kinyamal. 2018 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  3. ^ East Africa junior championships, Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) 29-30/04/2016. Africa Athle. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  4. ^ Wycliffe Kinyamal. IAAF. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  5. ^ a b Makori, Elias (12 April 2018). Gold at last! Wycliffe Kinyamal ends Kenya's duck in Gold Coast. The Daily Nation. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  6. ^ van den Brink, Cors (11 July 2017). Hassan provides Hengelo highlight with 1500m world lead. IAAF. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  7. ^ Sampaolo, Diego (30 August 2017). Kinyamal clocks 1:43.94 in Rovereto. IAAF. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  8. ^ senior outdoor 2017 800 Metres men. IAAF. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  9. ^ Ramsak, Bob (6 February 2018). Su, Stanek and Manning impress in Düsseldorf . IAAF. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  10. ^ "Results Archive". london.diamondleague.com.
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