Career
Having gained representation with Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Sports Management, he made his debut on the major European track and field circuit later that year. At the Memorial van Damme Diamond League meeting in Brussels he came fifth in a personal best of 8:23.69 minutes – the fastest time by a youth level athlete that year, and also the fourth fastest junior time. Yator began his 2011 cross country season on the Athletics Kenya National Cross Series, coming sixth in the junior section.
However, his running was interrupted by illness and he was admitted to Eldoret Hospital with suspected malaria.
His health rapidly worsened and the young athlete died on 5 February at the age of seventeen due to what was later identified as bronchopneumonia.