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About Samuel Gathimba
- Samuel Ireri Gathimba (born 26 October 1987) 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.
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