Kirani James

Kirani James
CBE

Kirani James at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics
Personal information
Nationality	Grenadian
Born	(1992-09-01) 1 September 1992 (age 31) Gouyave, Saint John, Grenada
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	Sprinting
College team	Alabama Crimson Tide
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2012 London 400 m,  Gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m,  Silver 2020 Tokyo 400 m,  Bronze
World finals	2011 Daegu 400 m,  Gold 2013 Moscow 400 m, 7th 2015 Beijing 400 m,  Bronze 2019 Doha 400 m, 5th 2022 Eugene 400 m,  Silver
Highest world ranking	1 (weeks 54)
Personal bests	Outdoor 200 m: 20.41 NR (El Paso 2011) 400 m: 43.74 NR (Lausanne 2014) Indoor 200 m: 20.58i NR (Albuquerque 2011) 400 m: 44.80i NR (Fayetteville, AR 2011)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Grenada Olympic Games 2012 London 400 m 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m 2020 Tokyo 400 m World Championships 2011 Daegu 400 m 2022 Eugene 400 m 2015 Beijing 400 m Diamond League 2022 400 m 2023 400 m Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 400 m World Junior Championships 2010 Moncton 400 m 2008 Bydgoszcz 400 m Pan American Junior Championships 2011 Miramar 200 m 2009 Port of Spain 400 m CARIFTA Games (U-20) 2010 Georgetown 400 m 2010 Georgetown 200 m 2009 Vieux Fort 400 m 2009 Vieux Fort 4×400 m relay World Youth Championships 2009 Brixen 200 m 2009 Brixen 400 m 2007 Ostrava 400 m Commonwealth Youth Games 2008 Pune 400 m CARIFTA Games (U-17) 2009 Basseterre 400 m 2007 Providenciales 400 m 2009 Basseterre 200 m

Kirani James CBE (born 1 September 1992) is a Grenadian professional sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He won the 400 m at the World Championships in 2011, and the 2012 London Olympics.^[1] In the 400 metres, James also won the silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, thus becoming the first man to earn the full set of three medals in the centennial history of the event. He is Grenada's first and only Olympic medalist.^[2] He holds the Grenadian national record in both the 200 metres and 400 metres.

As a junior, James also specialized in the 200 metres. 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 eleven athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels, David Storl, Armand Duplantis and Faith Kipyegon) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.