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Collins Injera (born October 18, 1986) is a rugby player from Kenya. He is known for his achievements with Kenyan national rugby sevens team.
Injera started playing rugby while at Vihiga High School in Vihiga. After graduation in 2005 he joined military team Ulinzi RFC playing in the Kenya Cup league. The team was later disbanded, and he moved to Mwamba RFC, a Nairobi-based team where he plays as a wing.
Now a strong player for the Kenyan Sevens squad, injera debuted with the team at the 2006 Dubai Sevens and played in the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens, where Kenya reached the semifinals. He became the top try scorer for 2008–09 IRB Sevens World Series season with 42 tries. He also scored 210 points and finished second behind Ben Gollings of England in the individual points table. Injera was also nominated for the IRB's sevens player of the year award, which was eventually won by Ollie Phillips of England. Injera won the Kenyan Sportsman of the Year award in 2009.
Injera has also played for the Kenya national rugby union team (15s), playing at the 2011 World Cup Qualifiers. His older brother Humphrey Kayange is captain of the Kenyan sevens squad. Their younger brother Michael Agevi plays rugby for Kakamega High School Injera has a degree in mass communication from Kenya College for Communication Technology (KCCT).
The Honourable Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, C.D. ( /ˈjuːseɪn/; born 21 August 1986), is a Jamaican sprinter and a five-time World and three-time Olympic gold medalist. He is the world record and Olympic record holder in the 100 metres, the 200 metres and (along with his teammates) the 4×100 metres relay. He is the reigning Olympic champion in these three events, and is one of only seven athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.
Bolt won a 200 m gold medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships, making him the competition's youngest-ever gold medalist at the time (since surpassed by Jacko Gill). In 2004, at the CARIFTA Games, he became the first junior sprinter to run the 200 m in less than 20 seconds with a time of 19.93 s, breaking the previous world junior record held by Roy Martin by two-tenths of a second. He turned professional in 2004, and although he competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he missed most of the next two seasons due to injuries. In 2007, he broke Don Quarrie's 200 m Jamaican record with a run of 19.75 s.
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