Kirani James, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kirani James

Grenadian sprinter

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1992

Place of Birth: St. George's, Saint George Parish, Grenada

Profession: sprinter, athletics competitor

Nationality: Grenada

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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 is Grenada's first and only Olympic medalist.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.