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| Nationality | Kenyan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 August 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 800 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 800 m: 1:43.40 (Monaco 2012)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Leonard Kirwa Kosencha (born 21 August 1994) is a Kenyan middle distance runner.
He won a gold medal at the 800 m at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics.[2][3] By running 1:44.08 at these Championships, he also broke Belal Mansoor Ali's old world youth best of 1:44.34, which had stood since June 17, 2005. Ethiopia's Mohammed Aman broke Kosencha's short-standing world youth best that September.[4] He won the silver medal at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games that season.
He began the 2012 season well as he was runner-up to Mohammed Aman at the Colorful Daegu Meeting, then won the first 2012 IAAF Diamond League race in Shanghai.[5]
- ^ Leonard Kosencha at Tilastopaja (registration required)
- ^ "Kosencha blazes 1:44.08 World Youth record in 800m". Universal Sports. 9 July 2011. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011.
- ^ "Kosencha blazes 1:44.08 World Youth best". IAAF. 9 July 2011.
- ^ "David Rudisha suffers rare loss in Rieti". Universal Sports. 9 July 2011.
- ^ Johnson, Len (2012-05-19). Liu Xiang and G. Dibaba the standouts in rainy Shanghai – Samsung Diamond League. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-05-20.