Leonard Kirwa Kosencha
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| Nationality | Kenyan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 August 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 800 metres | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800 m: 1:43.40 (Monaco 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Leonard Kirwa Kosencha (born 21 August 1994) is a Kenyan middle distance runner.
He won a gold medal at the 800 m at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics. By running 1:44.08 at these Championships, he also broke Belal Mansoor Ali's old world youth best of 1:44.34, which had stood since June 17, 2005. Ethiopia's Mohammed Aman broke Kosencha's short-standing world youth best that September. He won the silver medal at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games that season.
He began the 2012 season well as he was runner-up to Mohammed Aman at the Colorful Daegu Meeting, then won the first 2012 IAAF Diamond League race in Shanghai.
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