James Magut
 Magut at the 2012 Bislett Games |
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| Men's athletics | ||
Representing  Kenya
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| Commonwealth Games | ||
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2014 Glasgow | 1500 metres |
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2010 New Delhi | 1500 metres |
| African Athletics Championships | ||
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2012 Porto Novo | 1500 metres |
| IAAF World Relays | ||
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2014 Nassau | 4×1500 m relay |
James Kiplagat Magut (born 20 July 1990) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specialises in the 1500 metres. He has a personal best of 3:30.61 minutes for the event as well as a best of 3:50.68 minutes for the mile run.
He won his first medals as a teenager, taking second at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics and winning the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships. His first senior podium finish soon followed: on his major international debut at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he claimed the silver medal. He was the bronze medallist at the 2012 African Championships in Athletics.
Magut was part of the world record-setting 4×1500 metres relay team that won the gold medal at the 2014 IAAF World Relays.
Born in Nandi County, Magut gained his first national selection after a runner-up finish in the 1500 m at the Kenyan junior championships. At the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics, he seemed set to win the title but Algeria's Imad Touil narrowly beat him into second place by a tenth of a second. Following this he performed in Europe for the first time, finishing in the top ten at the Rieti Meeting and Hanžeković Memorial. The next year, the eighteen-year-old runner won the Kenyan high school championship, holding off Nixon Chepseba. He topped the podium at the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships. He competed infrequently the year after, but in spite of this won his first major medal in the form of a silver behind Silas Kiplagat at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
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