Richard Yator

Richard Yator
Full name	Richard Yator Kimunyan
nation	Kenya
birthday	6th April 1998 (age 22)
Career
discipline	Long distance running
status	active
Medal table
World Cross Country Championships 0 × 2 × 1 × Africa Games 0 × 0 × 1 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 African Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
World Cross Country Championships silver Kampala 2017 U20 team bronze Kampala 2017 U20 singles silver Aarhus 2019 team  Africa Games bronze Rabat 2019 5000 m  Youth World Championships gold Cali 2015 3000 m Youth African Championships silver Reduit 2015 3000 m
last change: March 14, 2020

Richard Yator Kimunyan (born April 6, 1998 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .

Athletic career

Richard Yator gained his first experience at international championships in 2015 at the African Youth Championships in Réduit , where he won the silver medal in the 3000 meter run in 7: 56.33 minutes. He then won the Youth World Championships in Cali in 7: 54.45 minutes and won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia in 7: 59.78 minutes. At the 2017 World Cross Country Championships in Kampala , he won the bronze medal in the U20 classification after 22:52 minutes and secured the silver medal behind Ethiopia in the team classification. Two years later he finished 13th at the 2019 World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus in 32:51 minutes and secured the silver medal behind Uganda in the team standings. He then took part in the Africa Games in Rabat for the first time and won the bronze medal there in 13: 31.41 minutes behind his two compatriots Robert Kiprop and Edward Pingua Zakayo .

Personal bests

• 3000 meters: 7: 45.78 min, June 30, 2019 in Palo Alto
• 5000 meters: 12: 59.44 min, August 31, 2018 in Brussels

Web links

• Richard Yator in the database of World Athletics (English)