1. Winfred Mutile Yavi is a Kenyan-born Bahraini female athlete who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase.
11 Facts About Winfred Yavi
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Winfred Yavi won the gold medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
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Winfred Yavi improved her personal best significantly in 2018, running 9:10.74 at the Monaco Diamond League.
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Winfred Yavi set a new personal best of 9:07.23 in finishing third at the Muller Grand Prix.
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Winfred Yavi ran a new personal best of 9:02.64 in finishing third at the 2021 Doha Diamond League.
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Winfred Yavi finished tenth in the final at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Winfred Yavi followed this up by winning the Paris Diamond League with a time of 8:56.55.
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Winfred Yavi finished fourth in the final at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.
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Winfred Yavi went onto win at the Zurich Diamond League, and the Prefontaine Classic where she improved her personal best to 8:50.66, the second fastest time in history at the time.
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Winfred Yavi won at the Rome Diamond League in a time of 8:44.39, breaking her own national record by over 6 seconds and only missing out on the world record by 0.07 seconds.
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Winfred Yavi went on to place second at the Diamond League final in Brussels, finishing behind Faith Cherotich.