Francine Niyonsaba (born May 5, 1993) is a Burundian runner who specialized in the 800 metres and shifted to longer distances in 2019. She was the 2016...

Francine Niyonsaba converged from lane 5 and the two assumed the lead down the backstretch. Semenya taking the curb as they began the turn, Niyonsaba...

4:43.13 in 2023, while the women's world record is held by Burundi's Francine Niyonsaba who ran a time of 5:21.56 in 2021. The distance sparsely features...

Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union 27 July 1980 Moscow 17 1:55.47 Francine Niyonsaba  Burundi 21 July 2017 Monaco 18 1:55.54 Ellen van Langen  Netherlands...

known at the time to have hyperandrogenism although silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba later confirmed her hyperandrogenism in a 2019 interview. Many bioethicists...

back for another go at Hassan. Another wild card in the race was Francine Niyonsaba, the Rio 800m silver medalist, pushed out of her favored event by...

draws on, but does not centre, the related stories of Caster Semenya, Francine Niyonsaba and Christine Mboma. The film premiered at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian...

3rd 1996 at the 1996 Olympic Games that were held in Atlanta, and Francine Niyonsaba added a silver 20 years later in athletics on August 20th 2016 at...

Semenya used her sheer speed to win the women's 800 m. Behind her Francine Niyonsaba won only the second ever medal for Burundi at the Olympics. In the...

2022. Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 9:14.55: Francine Niyonsaba also ran 9:00.75 (2021). Meseret Defar also ran 9:10.47 (2007) Mercy...