Margaret Wambui

Margaret Nyairera Wambui

Wambui at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1995-09-15) 15 September 1995 (age 29) Nyeri, Kenya[1]
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	800 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	1:56.89 (outdoors, 2016) 2:00.44 (indoors, 2016)
Medal record Representing  Kenya Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 800 m World Indoor Championships 2016 Portland 800 m African Championships 2016 Durban 400 m 2016 Durban 4x400 m relay

Margaret Nyairera Wambui (born 15 September 1995) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres.[2]

In her first international competition, she won the gold at the 2014 World Junior Championships.[3][4] She later competed at the 2015 World Championships without advancing from her heat. At the 2016 World Indoor Championships she won the bronze medal.[5] That same year she competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, setting a new personal best of 1:56.89 in the final, which also earned her a bronze.[6]

In 2019, it was revealed that Wambui was born with the 46,XY karyotype and an intersex condition after her qualification for IAAF women's competition was affected by the association's new regulations for athletes with XY disorders of sex development, testosterone levels above 5 nmol/L, and androgen sensitivity.[7][8]

She was one of the athletes whose cases were profiled in Phyllis Ellis's 2022 documentary film Category: Woman.[9]

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Kenya
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, United States	1st	800 m	2:00.49
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	39th (h)	800 m	2:03.52
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, United States	3rd	800 m	2:00.44
	African Championships	Durban, South Africa	2nd	400 m	52.24
			3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:30.21
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3rd	800 m	1:56.89
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	4th	800 m	1:57.54
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	–	800 m	DQ
	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	2nd	800 m	1:58.07
	African Championships	Asaba, Nigeria	7th (h)	800 m	2:02.80^1

^1Did not finish in the final

References

1. "2018 CWG bio". Retrieved 29 April 2018.
2. Margaret Wambui at World Athletics
3. Janeiro, Bismarck Mutahi in Rio de. "Kenya's hope: Nyairera only Kenyan in 800m final as hunt for more medals continue". Standard Digital News. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
4. "Kenya's Margaret Nyairera Wambui runs a lifetime best to win women's 800: IAAF Junior World Championships 2014". OregonLive.com. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
5. "Results - 800 Metres Women - Final" (PDF). 17 March 2016.
6. "IAAF: 800 Metres Result | The XXXI Olympic Games | iaaf.org". iaaf.org. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
7. Francis, Anne (22 May 2019). "Olympic 800m bronze medallist Margaret Wambui banned from Stockholm Diamond League". Running. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
8. "Executive Summary" (PDF). Court of Arbitration for Sport. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
9. Elisabetta Bianchini, "'Category: Woman' documentary calls out the human rights violation of defining a woman in sports". Yahoo! News, May 9, 2022.

External links

• Margaret Wambui at World Athletics