Wyclife Kinyamal Kisasy (born 2 July 1997) is a Kenyan male middle-distance runner who competes in the 800 metres. He won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and holds a personal best of 1:42.08 minutes.
Career Born in Trans Mara District, he made his first impact regionally at the 2016 East and Central Africa Junior Athletics Championships, winning the 800 m. East Africa junior championships, Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) 29-30/04/2016. Africa Athle. Retrieved 12 April 2018. He placed third at the Kenyan World Junior trials later that year, thus was not picked for the national team.Wycliffe Kinyamal. IAAF. Retrieved 12 April 2018. He had initially just focused on the high jump and took up running when he had completed high school at Mogonga Secondary School.Makori, Elias (12 April 2018). Gold at last! Wycliffe Kinyamal ends Kenya's duck in Gold Coast. The Daily Nation. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
Kinyamal established himself as an elite level runner in the 2017 season with performances on the European track circuit. At the FBK Games he set a personal best of 1:45.65 minutes to place second behind Thijmen Kupers,van den Brink, Cors (11 July 2017). Hassan provides Hengelo highlight with 1500m world lead. IAAF. Retrieved 12 April 2018. then won the Palio Città della Quercia in a meeting record of 1:43.94 minutes.Sampaolo, Diego (30 August 2017). Kinyamal clocks 1:43.94 in Rovereto. IAAF. Retrieved 12 April 2018. The latter performance ranked him seventh in the world on time for that season.senior outdoor 2017 800 Metres men. IAAF. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
The following year he set an indoor best of 1:46.54 minutes as runner-up at the PSD Bank Meeting.Ramsak, Bob (6 February 2018). Su, Stanek and Manning impress in Düsseldorf . IAAF. Retrieved 12 April 2018. With a second-place finish at the Kenyan Commonwealth Games trials, he earned his first senior international selection. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games he defeated defending champion Nijel Amos 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 2016East African Junior ChampionshipsDar es Salaam, Tanzania1st800 m1:50.172018Commonwealth GamesGold Coast, Australia1st800 m1:45.112022World ChampionshipsEugene, United States8th800 m1:47.072023World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary13th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:01.412024Olympic GamesParis, France11th (sf)800 m1:45.292026Commonwealth GamesGlasgow, United Kingdom3rd800 m1:46.12
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