Bellor Minigwo Yator

Bellor Minigwo Yator (* 1984 ) is a Kenyan marathon runner who temporarily started for Qatar under the name Yaser Belal Mansour .

In 2005 he was second in the half marathon of the Paderborn Easter run as well as in the open Hungarian marathon championships and third in the Graz marathon . The following year he won the open Hungarian marathon championships and set a course record at the Baden marathon with 2:12:32. In 2007 he finished fifth in the Tiberias Marathon and rose to 2:09:47 as the winner of the Düsseldorf Marathon . In the same year he acquired the Qatari nationality and took the name Yaser Belal Mansour on the occasion .

In 2008 he defended his title in Düsseldorf and came eleventh in the Frankfurt Marathon . At the end of the year he resumed his old citizenship and name.

A sixth place in the Ljubljana Marathon in 2009 was followed by a fifth place in the Barcelona Marathon and seventh in Ljubljana in 2010 .

In 2011 he was fourth in the Hamburg Marathon and seventh in the Toronto Waterfront Marathon . The following year he was twelfth in the Marrakech Marathon , set a course record in the Luxembourg Marathon with 2:13:45 and was fifth in the Košice Marathon . In 2013 he finished eighth in the Hong Kong Marathon and won again in Luxembourg.

Personal bests

• Half marathon: 1:02:16 h, March 26, 2005, Paderborn
• Marathon: 2:08:39 h, October 7, 2012, Košice

Web links

• Bellor Yator Minigwo in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr