Yiech Pur Biel (born 1995, credited as January 1)[1] is a track and field athlete and UNHCR goodwill ambassador originally from Nasir, South Sudan, but now living and training in the United States.

[1] In 2005 he fled from his home town of Nasir in Sudan to escape a civil war.

In 2015 he was selected to join the Tegla Loroupe Foundation, that holds athletic trials in Kakuma.

There he trained under Tegla Loroupe in Nairobi, along with four other middle-distance runners from South Sudan selected for the Olympic refugee team within a joint initiative by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

[6] Since competing at Rio, Pur has travelled to 26 countries as an athlete and advocate for refugees, speaking at events in New York and Paris and returning to Kakuma to deliver a TEDx speech.