Winnie Nanyondo

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| name = Winnie Nanyondo

| image = WinnieNanyondoKimaraMcDonald2014.jpg

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| caption = Nanyondo (left) competing at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

| nationality = Ugandan

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|08|23|df=y}}

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| country = Uganda

| sport = Athletics

| event = Middle-, Long-distance running

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|800 m: 1:58.63 (Monaco 2014)

|1000 m: 2:36.13 (Rabat 2018)

|1500 m: 3:59.56 {{AthAbbr|NR|Ugandan}} (Rabat 2019)

|Mile: 4:18.65 {{AthAbbr|NR|Ugandan}} (Monaco 2019)

|3000 m: 8:52.30 (Doha 2022)

|5000 m: 15:57.16 (Valencia 2020)

|Indoors

|800 m: 2:01.70{{AthAbbr|i|indoors}} (Metz 2020)

|1000 m: 2:37.80 {{AthAbbr|NR|Ugandan}} (Liévin 2019)

|1500 m: 4:03.54 {{AthAbbr|NR|Ugandan}} (Toruń 2022)

|Mile: 4:29.40 {{AthAbbr|NR|Ugandan}} (Birmingham 2019)

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Winnie Nanyondo (born 23 August 1993, in Mulago)[http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/athletics/1034664/w_nanyondo.html 2014 Winnie Nanyondo Biography".] Commonwealth Games Federation. 2014. Accessed 15 September 2019. is a Ugandan middle- and long-distance runner. She has represented her native country in several important international events, including both the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the 2014 World University Cross Country Championships, the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the 2013 Summer Universiade, and the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics.

Career

=2012–2013=

At the 2012 World Junior Championships, she reached the final in the 800 metres after running a personal best of 2:02.38 in her semi-final. The final was won by American Ajee' Wilson in a personal best of 2:00.91, with Nanyondo finishing a disappointing last in 2:07.23.

A year later, at the 2013 Summer Universiade in the 800 metres, her 2:02.96 finish time in the semi-finals was not fast enough to advance to the final. Nor did her 4:28.77 finish time in the semi-finals of the 1500 metres qualify her for the final.

=2014=

In 2014, Uganda hosted the Universiade World Cross Country Championships. Nanyondo took a 30-second victory to lead the home team to a 1-2-3 sweep and the team championship.[http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2014/03/world-university-cross-country.html Larner, Brett. "Championships results - Japan takes team silver and bronze".] Japan Running News. 22 March 2014. Accessed 14 September 2019.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140727075737/http://www.newvision.co.ug/mobile/Detail.aspx?NewsID=653840&CatID=5 Bakama, James. "Nanyondo predicted gold and got it".] New Vision. Archived from [http://www.newvision.co.ug/mobile/Detail.aspx?NewsID=653840&CatID=5 the original] on July 27, 2014. Accessed 14 September 2019.

Later in the year, she improved her track performance, taking her 800 metres time under 2:00.00 with a 1:59.27 race-winning performance in the Golden Spike Ostrava meet.[https://www.athletics.africa/news/africa/uganda/winnie-nanyondo-breaks-ugandan-800m-record-ostrava-8394 Omogbeja, Yomi. "Winnie Nanyondo nears Ugandan 800m record in Ostrava".] Athletics Africa. 8 June 2014. Accessed 2 October 2016.

A little more than a month later, at the Herculis meet in Monaco, she again improved her personal best in the 800 meters to 1:58.63, which placed her third behind second-place finisher and 2013 world champion Eunice Sum (1:57.92) and the winner Ajee' Wilson (1:57.67).[https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-diamond-league/herculis-5383/results/women/800-metres/final/result "800 Metres Women".] IAAF Diamond League. Monaco (Stade Louis II). 18 July 2014. Accessed 3 October 2016.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsVi6d-kOwY#t=85 "Wilson beats Sum in Monaco 800m".] Universal Sports. See the race: Nanyondo national record. Accessed 14 September 2019.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Nanyondo won a bronze medal for finishing third in the 800 metres final with a time of 2:01.38, just behind Sum of Kenya and Lynsey Sharp of Scotland.[https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1306024/clever-nanyondo-recovered-win-bronze Katende, Norman. "How clever Nanyondo recovered to win bronze".] NewVision. 2 August 2014. Accessed 14 September 2019.

=2015–2016=

In 2015 and 2016, she raced slower than her personal best in the 800 metres, failing to run faster than 2 minutes flat. She ran her season's best time of 2:01.97 at a race in Kortrijk, Belgium on 11 July 2015, finishing third.[http://www.liveresults.be/2015/guldensporenmeeting/event018h02.html "800m women, heat 2 of 2: official results".] 18th Guldensporenmeeting. Accessed 3 October 2016.[http://www.diamondleague.com/athletes/14534257.html Winnie Nanyondo: full profile".] IAAF Diamond League. Section: Progression - 800m. Accessed 3 October 2016. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she did not advance out of the first round of the 800 metres event, finishing sixth in heat #5 in a time of 2:02.77.

However, she improved her personal best at 1500 metres in Kawasaki, Japan, on 10 May 2015, finishing the race in 4:17.13.