About: Yiech Biel

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Yiech Pur Biel (born 1 January 1995) is a track and field athlete and UNHCR goodwill ambassador originally from Nasir, South Sudan, but now living and training in the United States. He was selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to compete for the Refugee Olympic Team in the 800 m event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He placed last in his heat.

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  • Yiech Pur Biel (Nasir, 1 de enero de 1995) es un atleta de pista y campo de Sudán del Sur, que vive como refugiado y se entrena en Kenia.​​​ (es)
  • Yiech Pur Biel (born 1 January 1995) is a track and field athlete and UNHCR goodwill ambassador originally from Nasir, South Sudan, but now living and training in the United States. He was selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to compete for the Refugee Olympic Team in the 800 m event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He placed last in his heat. In 2005 he fled from his home town of Nasir in Sudan to escape a civil war. After living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp for 10 years, he started running competitively in 2015. The Kakuma refugee camp is one of the largest refugee camps in the world with over 179,000 people. According to Biel there were no facilities, he even didn't have shoes and not a gym. Also the weather does not favour training because from morning until evening it is sunny and hot. In 2015 he was selected to join the Tegla Loroupe Foundation, that holds athletic trials in Kakuma. There he trained under Tegla Loroupe in Nairobi, along with four other middle-distance runners from South Sudan selected for the Olympic refugee team within a joint initiative by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Since competing at Rio, Pur has travelled to 26 countries as an athlete and advocate for refugees, speaking at events in New York and Paris and returning to Kakuma to deliver a TEDx speech. He joined the as a board member upon its founding in 2017. On behalf of the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team, Pur and fellow Refugee Olympian Yusra Mardini received the International Crisis Group (ICG)’s Stephen J. Solarz Award. In August 2020, Pur was selected to be a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR. At the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Pur served as manager of the Refugee Olympic Team. In February 2022 he was elected to serve an eight year term as a member of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the first UNHCR-recognised refugee to be elected to the body. (en)
  • 이에치 푸르 비엘(영어: Yiech Pur Biel, 1995년 1월 1일 ~ )은 남수단 나시르 출신의 난민 육상 선수이다. 남수단 내전을 피해 케냐로 갔으며, 유럽 난민 위기나 남수단 내전 등으로 난민 선수들이 많이 발생하자 국제 올림픽 위원회(IOC)에서 난민 선수들을 별도의 선수단으로 출전시키기로 결정함에 따라 2016년 6월에 인구 12만 명의 아프리카 최대 난민촌이 있는 케냐 카쿠마에서 올림픽 육상 대표 선발전이 열렸는데 이때 맨땅을 맨발로 뛰면서 많은 난민들이 도전장을 던졌고, 남수단 출신 난민 5명이 리우행 티켓을 따게된것이다. (ko)
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  • Yiech Pur Biel (Nasir, 1 de enero de 1995) es un atleta de pista y campo de Sudán del Sur, que vive como refugiado y se entrena en Kenia.​​​ (es)
  • 이에치 푸르 비엘(영어: Yiech Pur Biel, 1995년 1월 1일 ~ )은 남수단 나시르 출신의 난민 육상 선수이다. 남수단 내전을 피해 케냐로 갔으며, 유럽 난민 위기나 남수단 내전 등으로 난민 선수들이 많이 발생하자 국제 올림픽 위원회(IOC)에서 난민 선수들을 별도의 선수단으로 출전시키기로 결정함에 따라 2016년 6월에 인구 12만 명의 아프리카 최대 난민촌이 있는 케냐 카쿠마에서 올림픽 육상 대표 선발전이 열렸는데 이때 맨땅을 맨발로 뛰면서 많은 난민들이 도전장을 던졌고, 남수단 출신 난민 5명이 리우행 티켓을 따게된것이다. (ko)
  • Yiech Pur Biel (born 1 January 1995) is a track and field athlete and UNHCR goodwill ambassador originally from Nasir, South Sudan, but now living and training in the United States. He was selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to compete for the Refugee Olympic Team in the 800 m event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He placed last in his heat. (en)
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