Emmanuel Wanyonyi, a 20-year-old Kenyan athlete, has gained the gold medal within the males’s 800m ultimate on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
He set a private greatest time of 1:41.19, making him the third quickest man ever within the 800m.
This victory marks Kenya’s fifth consecutive gold medal within the males’s 800m on the Olympics.
The race additionally noticed 4 males break the 1:42 barrier for the primary time in the identical 800m occasion, with Marco Arop of Canada profitable silver and setting a brand new Canadian file, and Bryce Hoppel of the USA breaking the American file to complete fourth.
CONVERSEER studies that Wanyonyi solely turned 20 on 1st August 2024.
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Beneath is Kenya standing for males’s 800m on the Olympics
🥇 Wilfred Bungei, Beijing 2008🥇 David Rudisha, London 2012🥇 David Rudisha, Rio 2016🥇 Emmanuel Korir, Tokyo 2020🥇 Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Paris 2024
