NATHIKE Lokonyen Rose

Refugee Olympic Team

Athletics

Date of Birth: 1 Jan 1993

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Olympic Scholarship

Birth Country:

South Sudan

Place of residence : KENYA

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's 800m

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 800m Round 1 - Heat 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Olympic Games

Year	Location	800m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Round 1 (2:16.64)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	800m
2019	Doha, QAT	Heats (2:13.39)
2017	London, GBR	Heats (2:20.06)

World Relays

Year	Location	2 x 2 x 400m Relay
2019	Yokohama, JPN	7th (4:08.80)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Hobbies:

Watching and playing football. (medium.com, 06 Apr 2021)

Occupation:

Athlete

Languages spoken:

English

Club name:

Tegla Loroupe Foundation [Nairobi, KEN]

Coach:

Tegla Loroupe [club], KEN

Start:

She began training with the Tegla Loroupe Foundation in 2015, at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya. (unhcr.org, 03 Jun 2016)

Reason:

A teacher at the Kakuma Refugee Camp suggested she take part in a 10km race organised by the Tegla Loroupe Foundation. She performed well despite never having trained before, and began training with the foundation. "I had not been training. It was the first time for me to run, and I came number two. I was very surprised. I didn't know that talent could take me anywhere. I just loved sport." (worldathletics.org, 16 Jun 2021; rio2016.com, 16 Jun 2016; olympic.org, 03 Jun 2016; unhcr.org, 03 Jun 2016)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (worldathletics.org, 16 Jun 2021)

Training:

She trains two or three times a day, six days a week. Her sessions are a mixture of interval training on the track, hill runs, and long runs. (worldathletics.org, 16 Jun 2021)

Award:

She was flag bearer for the Refugee Olympic Team at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (unhrc.org, 01 Jan 2021)

General Interest

General
LEAVING SOUTHERN SUDAN
When she was age eight, she and her family fled the war in southern Sudan and arrived at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya. In 2008 her parents returned home, but she and her siblings remained in Kenya. "The other tribe came at night to attack our village, and some of my neighbours lost their lives because they couldn't escape. I lost some of my friends. My parents and I and some other neighbours managed to escape that night to a nearby town, walking in the bushes for two days." (worldathletics.org, 16 Jun 2021; unhrc.org, 01 Jan 2021; insidethegames.biz, 03 Jun 2016; olympic.org, 03 Jun 2016; unhcr.org, 03 Jun 2016)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She is an official High Profile Supporter for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR]. In June 2018 she participated at the 5th Formal Consultation on the Global Compact on Refugees, and was a delegate at the 2018 Human Rights Council Social Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. (news.un.org, 06 Apr 2021; unhrc.org, 01 Jan 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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