Abderrahim Goumri
Abderrahim Goumri (born May 21, 1976 in Safi , † January 19, 2013 in Temara ) was a Moroccan athlete .
Career
In 2001, the long-distance runner won over 10,000 m silver at the Francophonie Games and came in 16th at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton . The following year he was seventh on the long distance at the 2002 Cross Country World Championships in Dublin and won bronze with the Moroccan team.
Abderrahim Goumri finished tenth on the short distance and 15th on the long distance at the Cross Country World Championships in Avenches in 2003 and won bronze with the Moroccan team. At the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis he was tenth over 5000 m and twelfth at the World Half Marathon Championships in Vilamoura . In 2004 he finished 13th over the same distance at the Olympic Games in Athens , and in 2005 he finished eighth over 10,000 meters at the World Championships in Helsinki . In 2006 he won the BOclassic and then finally switched to road running .
After finishing 21st at the Cross Country World Championships in Mombasa in 2007 , with which he contributed to the silver medal of the Moroccan team, he celebrated a successful marathon debut when he finished second in the top-class London Marathon with 2:07:44 h, just three seconds behind the winner Martin Kiptoo Lel . Even in the New York City Marathon , he only had to admit defeat to Lel.
In 2008 he was third in the London Marathon in 2:05:30 h behind Lel and Samuel Kamau Wanjiru in the first marathon race in history, in which three runners remained under 2:06 h. He finished 20th in the Beijing Olympics marathon and came second again in New York City.
Abderrahim finished sixth in London in 2009 and second in the Chicago Marathon , third in the Philadelphia Half Marathon in 2010 and fourth in the New York City Marathon. In 2011, he achieved his first victory over the 42.195 km distance at the Seoul International Marathon .
Shortly before the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Goumri was banned for a doping offense for four years until March 14, 2016.
Abderrahim Goumri was 1.68 m tall and weighed 59 kg.
He died on January 19, 2013 in a car accident near the city of Rabat. The athletes Youssef Baba and Rashid Ramzi were injured.
Personal bests
- 1500 m : 3: 39.80 min, August 3, 1998, Malmö
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3000 m : 7: 32.36 min, August 24, 2001, Brussels
- Hall: 7: 39.58 min, February 3, 2002, Stuttgart
- 5000 m: 12: 50.25 min, August 26, 2005, Brussels
- Hall: 13: 29.55 min, February 2, 2006, Stockholm
- 10,000 m: 27: 02.62 min, May 29, 2005, Hengelo
- Half marathon : 1:01:19 h, April 29, 2001, Safi
- Marathon: 2:05:30 h, April 13, 2008, London
Web links
- Abderrahim Goumri in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Abderrahim Goumri in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), September 15, 2004
- Running Times: At Home with Abderrahim Goumri
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF: Goumri, Kalovics victorious in Bolzano ( Memento of 3 January 2007 at the Internet Archive ). January 1, 2007
- ^ IAAF: Goumri and Guta take victories in Seoul ( Memento of March 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). March 20, 2011
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: IAAF bans nine doping offenders , July 25, 2012
- ↑ http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/01/74407/moroccan-marathon-runner-abderrahim-goumri-dies-in-a-car-accident/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goumri, Abderrahim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moroccan athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Safi , Doukkala-Abda , Morocco |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th January 2013 |
| Place of death | Temara , Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zae , Morocco |