Wyclife Kinyamal (born 2 July 1997) is a Kenyan male

middle-distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distance event. The 1 ...

who competes in the

800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the ...

. He won a gold medal at the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

and holds a personal best of 1:43.12 minutes.

Career

Born in

Trans Mara District Trans Mara District was an administrative district in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. Its capital town was Kilgoris. The district had a population of 170,591 (1999 census) and an area of 2,846 km� It was created in 1994, when Trans M ...

,Wycliffe Kinyamal
GC2018. Retrieved 2018-04-12. he made his first impact regionally at the 2016 East and Central Africa Junior Athletics Championships, winning the 800 m. He placed third at the Kenyan World Junior trials later that year, thus was not picked for the national team.Wycliffe Kinyamal
IAAF. Retrieved 2018-04-12. He had initially just focused on the

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

and took up running when he had completed high school at Mogonga Secondary School.Makori, Elias (2018-04-12)
Gold at last! Wycliffe Kinyamal ends Kenya's duck in Gold Coast
''The Daily Nation''. Retrieved 2018-04-12. Kinyamal established himself as an elite level runner in the 2017 season with performances on the European track circuit. At the

FBK Games The FBK Games is an annual track and field event at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion in Hengelo, Netherlands as part of the IAAF World Challenge Meetings. It was first organized in 1981. Its name honours Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four gold meda ...

he set a personal best of 1:45.65 minutes to place second behind

Thijmen Kupers Thijmen Kupers (born 4 October 1991) is a Dutch middle-distance runner who specialises in the 800 metres. Raised in Lengel, Montferland, Lengel, Gelderland,

, then won the

Palio Città della Quercia The Palio Città della Quercia is an annual track and field meeting held at the in Rovereto, Italy. Usually held in late August or early September, it is a European Athletics premier meeting. It is the oldest international athletics meeting in Ita ...

in a meeting record of 1:43.94 minutes. The latter performance ranked him seventh in the world on time for that season. The following year he set an indoor best of 1:46.54 minutes as runner-up at the

PSD Bank Meeting The PSD Bank Meeting was an annual indoor track and field competition which took place in February at the Arena-Sportpark in Düsseldorf, Germany. The inaugural edition ''1. Internationales Indoor Meeting Düsseldorf'' was held in 2006 and attrac ...

. With a second-place finish at the Kenyan Commonwealth Games trials, he earned his first senior international selection. At the

he defeated defending champion

Nijel Amos Nijel Carlos Amilfitano Amos (born 15 March 1994) is a Motswana middle-distance runner who competes in the 800 metres. He won silver at the 2012 Summer Olympics, which was Botswana's first ever Olympic medal. Early life Nijel Amos is from Ma ...

in the final to become the Commonwealth champion. This was Kenya's first gold medal of the tournament that year, as his compatriots had thus far failed to win any of the distance events in which the country is traditionally strong. In July he improved his PB to 1:43.12 taking third at the Diamond League meeting at London.

International competitions

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinyamal, Wyclife 1997 births Living people People from Narok County Sportspeople from Rift Valley Province Kenyan male middle-distance runners Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Kenya Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics 21st-century Kenyan people Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games