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Handal Roban
St Vincent and the Grenadines athlete From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Handal Roban (born 5 September 2002) is a middle distance runner from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. He won the gold medal at the 2025 NACAC Championships and competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and 2025 World Championships over 800 metres.[1]
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Early life
He attended Jamaica College, and Penn State University in the United States. He was a gold and bronze medallist at the Junior Carifta Games in 2018. Roban was a bronze medallist at the 2019 North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) Under-18 Championships in Mexico.[2][3]
Career
He won a silver medal at the 2022 NACAC Championships in Freeport, Bahamas over 800 metres.[4] He competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England in the 800 metres.[5]
In June 2023, he lowered the national record for the 800 metres to 1:45.95 whilst running at the NCAA final in Austin, Texas in 2023.[6] He won the gold medal over 800 metres at the 2023 NACAC U23 Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica.[7] He won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador in July 2023.[8] He competed in the 800 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.[9]
He competed in the 800 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024.[10][11]
He won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 2025 NACAC Championships in Freeport, The Bahamas in a national record 1:42.87 which also broke the championship record held previously by Ryan Martin.[12] It was the first gold medal ever won by St Vincent and the Grenadines at the event.[13] He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025 in the men's 800 metres.[14]
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