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Alphas Kishoyian

Kenyan sprint athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ4735277 ↗
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Alphas Leken Kishoyian (born 12 October 1994) is a Kenyan sprinter.

Kishoyian won a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics, losing to Arman Hall. He also won a silver medal in the 400 m at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, losing to Clovis Asong.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2011—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1994-10-12, 1994-01-01—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Alphas, Kishoyian and Kenyan is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alphas Kishoyian” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.