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About Yiech Biel
- Yiech Pur Biel (born 1 January 1995) is a track and field athlete originally from Nasir, South Sudan, but now living and training in Kenya.
- He has been selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to compete for the Refugee Olympic Team in the 800 m event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
- He placed last in his heat.In 2005 he fled from his home town of Nasir in Sudan to escape a civil war.
- After living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp for 10 years, he started running competitively in 2015.
- The Kakuma refugee camp is one of the largest refugee camps in the world with over 179,000 people.
- According to Biel there were no facilities, he even didn't have shoes and not a gym.
- Also the weather does not favour training because from morning until evening it is sunny and hot.
- In 2015 he was selected to join the Tegla Loroupe Foundation, that hold athletic trials in Kakuma.
- Nowadays he trains under Tegla Loroupe herself in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, along with four other middle-distance runners from South Sudan selected for the Olympic refugee team within a joint initiative by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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