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Samuel Gathimba

Personal information
Born	(1987-10-26) October 26, 1987 (age 37)
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Country	Kenya
Sport	Athletics
Event	Men's 20km Walk
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Kenya Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast 20 km walk African Games 2019 Rabat 20 km walk 2015 Brazzaville 20 km walk 2023 Accra 20 km walk African Championships 2016 Durban 20 km walk 2018 Asaba 20 km walk 2022 Saint Pierre 20 km walk 2014 Marrakech 20 km walk

Samuel Ireri Gathimba (born 26 October 1987 in Nyeri County) is a Kenyan racewalking athlete. He was the 20 kilometres walk gold medallist at the African Championships in Athletics in 2016. He holds a personal best of 1:19:24 hours.

Gathimba emerged at international level in 2014, taking a silver medal at the 2014 African Championships in Athletics behind Lebogang Shange of South Africa. He set a personal best of 1:23:59 hours to place second at the national championships that year, behind David Kimutai Rotich. He topped the podium at the 2015 national trials with a new best of 1:23:12 hours, which ranked him in the world's top 100 for the first time. He again demonstrated his place among the continent's best at the 2015 African Games where he lost out on the gold to Shange by a margin of one second.

The 2016 season proved to be a breakthrough for Gathimba. At the 2016 African Championships in Athletics he was a gold medallist by a large margin, crossing the line in a championship record of 1:19:24 hours. This was a Kenyan record and was 22 seconds off Hatem Ghoula's near two-decade-old African best.

He has qualified to represent Kenya at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

International competitions

National titles

• Kenyan Athletics Championships
  • 20 km walk: 2015

References

1. 2014 end-of-year reviews – race walks. IAAF (2014-12-22). Retrieved on 2016-07-01.
2. Senior outdoor 2014 20 Kilometres Race Walk men. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-01.
3. Mutuota, Mutwiri (2015-08-01). ‘Fergie’ topples ‘King David’, Kiprop, Sum soar. Capital FM Sports. Retrieved on 2016-07-01.
4. Senior outdoor 2015 20 Kilometres Race Walk men. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-01.
5. African Games Men's 20 km walk Results. Brazzaville2015. Retrieved on 2016-07-01.
6. Botton, Wesley (2016-06-26). Van Niekerk takes 200m title, two more golds for Semenya as African Championships conclude. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-01.
7. Olobulu, Timothy (2021-06-19). "Conseslus, Timothy Cheruiyot out as Kenya names team for Tokyo Olympics". Capital Sports. Retrieved 2021-06-20.

External links

• Samuel Gathimba at World Athletics

• Living people
• 1987 births
• Kenyan male racewalkers
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic athletes for Kenya
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
• Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
• Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Kenya
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 African Games
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 African Games
• African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
• African Games gold medalists for Kenya
• African Games silver medalists for Kenya
• African Championships in Athletics winners
• African Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• 21st-century Kenyan sportsmen