Nijel Amos · TheSportsDB · Courtesy of TheSportsDB
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5 total works indexed
- Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
· 1979 · cited 40,231x
- Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
· 1974 · cited 23,847x
- The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
· 1981 · cited 11,916x
- Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty
· 1992 · cited 11,665x
- Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability
· 1973 · cited 6,590x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1994-03-15 ) 15 March 1994 (age 32) , Marobela , Botswana
- Height
- 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Weight
- 67 kg (148 lb)
- Country
- Botswana
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- 800 metres
- Personal bests
- 400 m : 44.99 ( Padua 2019) 800 m : 1:41.73 World under-20 record</span>"}]]}'>WU20R National record</span>"}]]}'>NR ( London 2012) 1500 m : 3:44.04 ( Irvine 2021)
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Athletics
- Team
- _Retired Athletics
- Position
- Middle Distance Runner
- Nationality
- Botswana
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Encyclopedic overview
Nijel Carlos Amilfitano Amos (born 15 March 1994) is a Botswana middle-distance runner who competes in the 800 metres. He won the silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics, which was Botswana's first-ever Olympic medal. Amos claimed gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 All-Africa Games. At the African Championships in Athletics, he took golds in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
He won the gold medal in his specialist event at the 2012 World Under-20 Championships. Amos is the Botswana record holder for the 800m; his mark is also the world U20 record. He is a three-time Diamond League 800m winner.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nijel Amos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.