Margaret Nyairera Wambui

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Margaret Wambui (2016)
Margaret Wambui in Rio de Janeiro 2016

Full name Margaret Nyairera Wambui
nation KenyaKenya Kenya
birthday 15th September 1995 (age 24)
place of birth Nyeri , Kenya
size 185 cm
Weight 70 kg
Career
discipline 800 meter run
Best performance 1: 56.87 min
National squad since 2014
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Indoor world championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Commonwealth Games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
African Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
U20 world championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 800 m
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
bronze Portland 2016 800 m
Commonwealth Games Federation logo Commonwealth Games
silver Gold Coast 2018 800 m
 African Championships
silver Durban 2016 400 m
bronze Durban 2016 4 × 400 m
IAAF logo Junior World Championships
gold Eugene 2014 800 m
last change: January 13, 2019

Margaret Nyairera Wambui (born September 15, 1995 in Nyeri ) is a Kenyan athlete who specializes in the 800-meter run .

Athletic career

Wambui first appeared internationally in 2014 when she surprisingly won the 800-meter title at the Junior World Championships in Eugene in front of the favorite Sahily Diago from Cuba in a time of 2: 00.49 min. 2015 she participated in the World Championships in Beijing in part, but resigned already with 2: 03.52 minutes after the preliminaries out. In 2016 Wambui established itself among the best in the world. At the World Indoor Championships in Portland , she won the bronze medal in 2: 00.44 min over 800 meters behind Francine Niyonsaba from Burundi and Ajee Wilson from the United States. She also demonstrated her basic speed on shorter distances. At the African Championships in Durban , she finished second behind Kabange Mupopo from Zambia over 400 meters in 52.24 seconds and won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay with the Kenyan team .

Wambui celebrated the greatest success of her career to date at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . With a personal best of 1: 56.89 minutes, she finished third in the 800-meter run behind the South African Caster Semenya and Francine Niyonsaba. The result was controversial in the media as all three medal winners are considered hyperandrogenic . This reignited a debate that had already started with Semenya's victory at the 2009 World Championships and the ensuing sex test .

2017 was Wambui Kenyan champion in the 800-meter race, finishing at the World Championships in London with a time of 1: 57.54 minutes in the final in fourth place. In 2018 she won the silver medal behind Caster Semenya in 1: 58.07 min at the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast . She was previously disqualified at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham . Also at the African Championships in Asaba she did not reach the finish in the final.

Personal bests

  • 400 meters: 51.39 s, May 28, 2016 in Nairobi
  • 800 meters: 1: 56.87 min, August 24, 2017 in Zurich
    • 800 meters (hall): 2: 00.44 min, March 20, 2016 in Portland

Web links

Commons : Margaret Wambui  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Javier Clavelo Robinson: Report: women's 800m - IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 ( English ) IAAF. July 25, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Intersex podium - what next with the 800 meters? . Day indicator. August 21, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ Semenya storms to gold - and has to justify himself again . RP Online. August 21, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wambui, Margaret Nyairera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan athlete
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Nyeri