Kirani James

Kirani James

Kirani James at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics
Personal information
Nationality	Grenadian
Born	(1992-09-01) 1 September 1992 (age 24) Gouyave, Saint John, Grenada
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Sprinting
College team	Alabama Crimson Tide
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	200 m: 20.41 (El Paso 2011) 400 m: 43.74 (Lausanne 2014)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Grenada Olympic Games 2012 London 400 m 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m World Championships 2011 Daegu 400 m 2015 Beijing 400 m Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 400 m World Junior Championships 2010 Moncton 400 m 2008 Bydgoszcz 400 m World Youth Championships 2009 Brixen 200 m 2009 Brixen 400 m 2007 Ostrava 400 m

200 m: 20.41 (El Paso 2011)

Kirani James (born 1 September 1992) is a Grenadian sprinter who specializes in the 200 and 400 metres. He won the 400 m at the World Championships in 2011 and the 2012 London Olympics. He was Grenada's first Olympic medalist in any sport.

Prodigious from a young age, he ran the fastest 400 m times ever by a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old. He won a series of gold medals at the CARIFTA Games and the Commonwealth Youth Games and rose on the international stage with 400 m silver medals at the 2007 World Youth and 2008 World Junior Championships. James became the first athlete to run a 200/400 double at the 2009 World Youth Championships and was the 2010 World Junior Champion.

James received an athletic scholarship at the University of Alabama and won back-to-back NCAA Outdoor Championship titles in his first two years. He is the third fastest of all-time indoors (44.80 seconds) and ran a personal best of 43.74 at a 2014 Diamond League event in Lausanne. James is one of only nine athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels and David Storl) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.