Kumari Taki

Kumari Taki
nation	Kenya
birthday	6th May 1999 (age 21)
place of birth	Kenya
Career
discipline	1500 meter run
Best performance	3: 34.57 min
status	active
Medal table
U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Junior World Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2016 1500 m  Youth World Championships gold Cali 2015 1500 m
last change: August 29, 2019

Kumari Taki (born May 6, 1999 ) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specializes in the 1,500 meter run .

Athletic career

Kumari Taki gained his first experience in international championships at the 2015 African Youth Championships in Réduit , where he won the gold medal over 1500 meters in 3: 44.35 minutes. He then took part in the youth world championships in Cali , Colombia , where he also won the gold medal with a new championship record of 3: 36.38 minutes. At the end of the season he won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia . In 2016 he took part in the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz and won the gold medal there in 3: 48.63 minutes.

In 2018 he took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast , where he finished seventh in the final in 3: 38.74 minutes.

Personal bests

• 800 meters: 1: 46.2 min, May 23, 2015 in Eldoret
• 1500 meters: 3: 34.57 min, June 22, 2019 in Tomblaine
• Mileage: 3: 59.20 min, June 7, 2018 in Oslo

Web links

• Kumari Taki in the database of World Athletics (English)