(1995-09-15) 15 September 1995 (age 28) 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]
^"2018 CWG bio". Retrieved 29 April 2018.
^Margaret Wambui at World Athletics
^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.
^"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.
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