Tazana Kamanga-Dyrbak Explained

Tazana Mikkel Kamanga-Dyrbak
Birth Date:	12 January 2002
Sport:	Athletics
Event:	100 m, 200 m
Club:	Sparta AM
Coach:	Peter Gatana (KEN)

Tazana Mikkel Kamanga-Dyrbak (born 12 January 2002) is a Danish sprinter.

A former rugby player, he has represented his country at the 2021 World Athletics Relays, establishing the national record on and qualifying Denmark for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.^[1]

Kamanga-Dyrbak attended Millfield School for a time.^[2] He has a Zambian mother, and a Danish father who grew up in Kenya, both former international swimmers. He lives and trains in Kenya where he has set up a sprint club and trains with his Kenyan coach.^{[3] [4]}

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 100 metres – 10.22 (+1.5 m/s, Sestriere 2022)
• 200 metres – 20.48 (+0.3 m/s, Lusaka 2021), NR^[5]
• 4 × 100 metres relay – 38.16 (Tokyo 2021) NR^[6]

Notes and References

1. News: Danske stafethold sprinter i VM-finalen og til OL . Berlingske.dk . May 2021 .
2. Web site: Millfield at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics . . 26 October 2022.
3. https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/608c09b498549afd22fb95ef.pdf Biography at World Athletics
4. News: Elsnab . Peter . Forbedrede legendarisk rekord i weekenden: Dansk-kenyansk løbetalent vil være Europas hurtigste . 2 May 2021 . dr.dk . 12 April 2021 . Danish.
5. Web site: Forbedrede legendarisk rekord i weekenden: Dansk-kenyansk løbetalent vil være Europas hurtigste . 12 April 2021 .
6. News: Danske stafethold sprinter i VM-finalen og til OL . Berlingske.dk . May 2021 .