Kyron McMaster

Kyron McMaster
Kyron McMaster in Bydgoszcz 2016
nation	British Virgin Islands
birthday	3rd January 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Road Town , British Virgin Islands
size	178 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
society	47.54 s
Trainer	Lennox Graham
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games gold Gold Coast 2018 400 m hurdles  Junior World Championships bronze Bydgoszcz 2016 400 m hurdles
last change: June 2nd, 2018

Kyron McMaster (born January 3, 1997 in Road Town ) is a 400-meter hurdler from the British Virgin Islands .

Athletic career

Kyron McMaster gained his first international experience at the Central America and Caribbean Junior Championships in 2012 in San Salvador , where he finished seventh in the high jump with 1.85 m and eliminated over 400 meters in the first round. At the CARIFTA Games 2013 in Nassau he was fifth over 400 meters and seventh over 200 meters. At the Youth World Championships in Donetsk , he was eliminated over 200 and 400 meters in the preliminary run. At the CARIFTA Games 2014 in Fort-de-France , he finished sixth over 400 meters and won the bronze medal over 400 meter hurdles in 52.85 s. About this discipline he took part in the Junior World Championships in Eugene , but dropped out there in the first round. He then took part in the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing , but was disqualified there in the preliminary stages.

In 2015 he reached the final of the Pan American Junior Championships in Edmonton , but then could not finish his final run. In 2016 he took part in the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz , where he won the bronze medal in 49.56 s. In 2017 he qualified for the World Championships in London and was disqualified there because of a track violation in the second run . In 2018 he took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time , where he won the gold medal in 48.25 s and thus won the first ever gold medal for the British Virgin Islands.

In 2017 he won the IAAF Diamond Race .

Personal best

• 200 meters: 20.72 s (+0.7 m / s), June 25, 2017 in Port of Spain
  • 200 meters (hall): 22.06 s, January 30, 2016 in Phoenix
• 400 meters: 48.10 s, June 29, 2014 in Saint John's
  • 400 meters (hall): 47.95 s, March 5, 2016 in Winston-Salem
• 400 m hurdles: 47.54 s, June 30, 2018 in Paris ( national record )
• High jump: 1.85 m, June 30, 2012 in San Salvador

Web links

• Kyron McMaster in the database of World Athletics (English)