Moses Kiyai (born 1962) is a retired Kenyan long jumper and triple jumper.
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's athletics | ||
| Representing | ||
| African Championships | ||
| 1982 Cairo | Long jump | |
Kiyai competed for the Iowa State Cyclones track and field team in the NCAA.[1][2]
Kiyai won a bronze medal at the 1982 African Championships.[3] He won the East African Championships in the long jump in 1981, 1982 and 1984 and became triple jump champion in 1982.[4] At the 1982 Commonwealth Games he finished sixth in the long jump and eighth in the triple jump.[citation needed] He also competed at the 1984 Olympic Games without reaching the final in neither long nor triple jump.[5]
His personal best jump was 8.08 metres, achieved in May 1984 in Lincoln, Nebraska.[6] In the triple jump he had 16.27 metres from 1986.[5]
References
edit- ↑ "#BlackHistoryMonth: 1984 Olympic Medalists in Men's Track". The Blog of Special Collections and University Archives at Iowa State University.
- ↑ "Track and Field Roundup : Joyner Tops U.S. Record in Heptathlon at Mt. SAC". latimes.com.
- ↑ "African Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
- ↑ "East and Central African Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
- 1 2 "Moses Kiayi". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ↑ Moses Kiyai at World Athletics