in Santiponce, Sevilla. 2022 - Present 2022 was Ndikumwenayo's breakthrough season. He started the year with a 10km PB in Castellon of 28:04, and went on to win the Gran Premio Campo a Traves in Serradilla, Spain. He ran as a pacemaker in the Barcelona Half Marathon and Madrid Marathon. Ndikumwenayo began his track season in May at the Desafio Nerja, and ran a near-19 second 5000m personal best of 13:06.58. Three weeks later, he marginally improved his best time over the distance at the Meeting Iberoamericano in Huelva, placing third in 13:06.46. The improvements in his times and performances gained him an entry to the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Rome (his first Diamond League race), where he ran a PB and NR of 12:59.39 for 8th. He raced several more times on the Diamond League circuit over the course of that year: he was 2nd at the Meeting de Paris 5000m (13:05.24) and finished 5th over 3000m at the Bauhaus-Galan (7:34.91 PB), before suffering an injury setback which ruled him out of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon. He later shocked an incredible field to win his first ever Diamond League race in the Herculis 3000m. He ran a Burundian national record, a world-leading time, and Diamond League record to win in 7:25.94. He came 11th in the 5000m at the Memorial Van Damme (13:10.71), and competed in the Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League Final, but did not finish the race. His 2022 cross country season began with 3 successive victories in the Cross Internacional de Soria, Cross de Atapuerca and Cross de Italica, at about which time he gained Spanish citizenship. References External links Living people 1997 births Place of birth missing (living people) Burundian male long-distance runners Burundian male cross country runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Burundi Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 21st-century Burundian people