{{short description|Kenyan middle-distance runner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Margaret Nyairera Wambui | image = Margaret Wambui Rio 2016.jpg | caption = Wambui at the 2016 Olympics | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|9|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = Nyeri, Kenya<ref>{{cite web|url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/athletics/athlete-profile-n6020750-margaret-nyairera-wambui.htm|title=2018 Commonwealth Games profile|accessdate=29 April 2018|archive-date=30 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430050335/https://results.gc2018.com/en/athletics/athlete-profile-n6020750-margaret-nyairera-wambui.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> | height = 1.85 m | weight = 70 kg | sport = Track and field | event = 800 metres | pb = 1:56.89 (outdoors, 2016)<br />2:00.44 (indoors, 2016) | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Women's athletics}} {{MedalCountry|{{KEN}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 800 m}} {{Medal|Competition|World Indoor Championships}} {{Medal|Bronze|2016 Portland|800 m}} {{MedalCompetition|African Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2016 Durban|400 m}} {{MedalBronze|2016 Durban|4×400 m}} }} '''Margaret Nyairera Wambūi''' (born 15 September 1995) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.<ref>{{World Athletics}}</ref>
In her first international competition, she won the gold at the 2014 World Junior Championships.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/article/2000212665/kenya-s-hope-nyairera-only-kenyan-in-800m-final-as-hunt-for-more-medals-continue|title=Kenya's hope: Nyairera only Kenyan in 800m final as hunt for more medals continue|last=Janeiro|first=Bismarck Mutahi in Rio de|website=Standard Digital News|language=en|access-date=2018-05-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2014/07/kenyas_margaret_nyairera_wambu.html|title=Kenya's Margaret Nyairera Wambui runs a lifetime best to win women's 800: IAAF Junior World Championships 2014|work=OregonLive.com|access-date=2018-05-03|language=en-US}}</ref> She later competed at the 2015 World Championships without advancing from her heat. At the 2016 World Indoor Championships she won the bronze medal.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/5681/AT-800-W-f----.RS6.pdf | title=Results - 800 Metres Women - Final | date=2016-03-17}}</ref> That same year she competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, setting a new personal best of 1:56.89 in the final, which also earned her a bronze.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/olympic-games/the-xxxi-olympic-games-5771/results/women/800-metres/final/result#resultheader|title=IAAF: 800 Metres Result | The XXXI Olympic Games | iaaf.org|website=iaaf.org|access-date=2018-05-03}}</ref>
In 2019, it was revealed that Wambūi was born with the 46,XY karyotype and an intersex condition after she was disqualified from IAAF women's competition by the association's new regulations for athletes with XY disorders of sex development, testosterone levels above 5 nmol/L, and androgen sensitivity.<ref name="running">{{cite web |last1=Francis |first1=Anne |title=Olympic 800m bronze medallist Margaret Wambui banned from Stockholm Diamond League |url=https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/olympic-800m-bronze-medallist-margaret-wambui-banned-from-stockholm-diamond-league/ |website=Running |date=22 May 2019 |accessdate=15 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Executive Summary |url=https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/CAS_Executive_Summary__5794_.pdf |website=Court of Arbitration for Sport |accessdate=15 June 2019}}</ref> The rules were upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.<ref name="running" /> Wambūi declined to take medication to suppress her testostoerone levels in order to be eligible for women's competitions under the new rules, and has not competed internationally since then.<ref name="Ellis" />
She was one of the athletes whose cases were profiled in Phyllis Ellis's 2022 documentary film ''Category: Woman''.<ref name="Ellis">Elisabetta Bianchini, [https://ca.news.yahoo.com/category-woman-hot-docs-festival-2022-sports-women-testosterone-205837215.html "'Category: Woman' documentary calls out the human rights violation of defining a woman in sports"]. ''Yahoo! News'', May 9, 2022.</ref>
==Competition record== {| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}} |- !colspan="6"|Representing {{KEN}} |- |2014 |World Junior Championships |Eugene, United States |bgcolor=gold|1st |800 m |2:00.49 |- |2015 |World Championships |Beijing, China |39th (h) |800 m |2:03.52 |- |rowspan=4|2016 |World Indoor Championships |Portland, United States |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |800 m |2:00.44 |- |rowspan=2|African Championships |rowspan=2|Durban, South Africa |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |52.24 |- |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |4 × 400 m relay |3:30.21 |- |Olympic Games |Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |800 m |1:56.89 |- |2017 |World Championships |London, United Kingdom |4th |800 m |1:57.54 |- |rowspan=3|2018 |World Indoor Championships |Birmingham, United Kingdom | – |800 m |DQ |- |Commonwealth Games |Gold Coast, Australia |bgcolor=silver|2nd |800 m |1:58.07 |- |African Championships |Asaba, Nigeria |7th (h) |800 m |2:02.80<sup>1</sup> |} <sup>1</sup>Did not finish in the final
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