Kyron McMaster
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Born | Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands | 3 January 1997|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Central Arizona College University of Florida | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 400 m hurdles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Florida Gators | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Dag Samuels (–2017) Lennox Graham (2017–) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kyron McMaster (born 3 January 1997) is an athlete from the British Virgin Islands specialising in the 400 metres hurdles.
He represented his country at the 2017 World Championships where he finished in the top three in his heat only to be disqualified for a lane infringement. Earlier, he won a bronze medal at the 2016 World U20 Championships.
His personal best in the event is 47.08 seconds set in finishing fourth in the final of the 2020 Olympic Games 400m hurdles, on August 3, 2021. This is the current national record.
His coach, Xavier "Dag" Samuels died on September 9, 2017 during Hurricane Irma.
McMaster won the British Virgin Islands' first ever Commonwealth Games medal (a gold) in the 400 m hurdles in 2018 and followed up with another gold at the Commonwealth Games winning at Birmingham 2022 in the same event.
McMaster finished second at the 2023 World Track and Field Championships in Budapest, earning a silver medal. This was the first ever medal for the British Virgin Islands at this championship event.
International competitions
1Did not finish in the final
2Did not start in the semifinals
- 1997 births
- Living people
- British Virgin Islands male hurdlers
- World Athletics Championships athletes for British Virgin Islands
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for the British Virgin Islands
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- People from Road Town
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for the British Virgin Islands
- Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Diamond League winners
- Florida Gators men's track and field athletes
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for the British Virgin Islands
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Central America and Caribbean athletics biography stubs
- British Virgin Islands sportspeople stubs