Sydney Siame Explained

Sydney Siame
Birth Date:	7 October 1997
Birth Place:	Isoka, Zambia^[1]
Height:	1.70 m
Weight:	65 kg
Sport:	Athletics
Event:	100 m, 200 m
Show-Medals:	yes

Sydney Sido Siame (born 7 October 1997) is a Zambian sprinter.^[2] He competed in the 200 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without advancing from the first round. In addition, he won a gold medal at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.^[3]

A run of 9.88 seconds was recorded for the 100 m in Lusaka in 2017, but Siame's time was excluded from the global lists on the basis of doubtful timing. This would have been the first time a Zambian had broken the 10-second barrier and a highly unusual improvement of 0.34 seconds for the athlete.^[4]

Competition record

Representing
2014	African Youth Games	Gaborone, Botswana	bgcolor=silver	2nd	100 m	10.58
	World Junior Championships	Eugene, United States	16th (sf)	100 m	10.68
	Youth Olympic Games	Nanjing, China	bgcolor=gold	1st	100 m	10.56
2015	African Junior Championships	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3rd	100 m	10.77
	World Championships	Beijing, China	45th (h)	200 m	21.08
	African Games	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	6th (h)	100 m	10.35^1
			7th	200 m	21.21
			3rd (h)	4 × 100 m relay	39.31^2
2016	African Championships	Durban, South Africa	5th	200 m	20.83
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	39.77
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	12th (sf)	200 m	20.54
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	32nd (h)	60 m	6.88
	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	5th	200 m	20.62
	African Championships	Asaba, Nigeria	6th	200 m	20.79
			4th	4 × 400 m relay	3:04.98
2019	African Games	Rabat, Morocco	bgcolor=gold	1st	200 m	20.35
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	28th (h)	200 m	20.58
2021^3	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	37th (h)	200 m	21.01
2022	African Championships	Port Louis, Mauritius	20th (sf)	100 m	10.50
			18th (sf)	200 m	21.31

¹Disqualified in the semifinals

²Disqualified in the final

³Postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 100 metres – 10.06 (+1.1 m/s, Šamorín 2018)
• 200 metres – 20.16 (+1.5 m/s, La Chaux-de-Fonds 2019)

Notes and References

1. https://results.gc2018.com/en/athletics/athlete-profile-n6029172-sydney-siame.htm 2018 CWG bio
2. Web site: Sydney Siame . IAAF . 25 August 2015. 25 August 2015.
3. Web site: Athletics Results Book. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161026234354/http://doc.rero.ch/record/211434/files/Results_Book_Athletics_V1.0.pdf. 26 October 2016. 17 August 2020. 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.
4. http://www.times.co.zm/?p=96761 Siame’s 9.88s record scrapped