Leonard Kirwa Kosencha, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Kenyan middle distance athlete
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Place of Birth: Kilgoris, Rift Valley Province, Kenya
About Leonard Kirwa Kosencha
- 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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