Ahmed Abdelwahed

Ahmed Abdelwaled
Ahmed Abdelwaled at the 2018 European Championships
Full name	Ahmed Abdelwaled
nation	Italy
birthday	26th May 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Rome ,  Italy
size	186 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	3000 meters obstacle
Best performance	8: 26.92 min
society	GA Fiamme Gialle
Trainer	Roberto Scalla
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
U23 European Championships silver Bydgoszcz 2017 3000 m obstacle
last change: May 28, 2020

Ahmed Abdelwahed (born May 26, 1996 in Rome ) is an Italian athlete of Egyptian origin who starts over 3000 meters obstacle .

Origin and life

Ahmed Abdelwaled was born in the capital, Rome, to Egyptian parents who had lived in Italy for more than a decade. In his youth he played basketball in the position of playmaker. He still does the sport in his spare time. In 2008 he started athletics and started training at the youth performance center in Ostia . After initially turning to the pole vault, he switched to the middle distance distance from 2012 under the direction of his coach at the time, Andrea Ceccarelli.

Abdelwaled has lived in Camerino since 2016 , where he studied social sciences. There he is being trained by Roberto Scalla today.

Athletic career

After switching to the middle distance distance, Abdelwaled competed in the Italian U18 championships in 2012, where he won the 2000 meter obstacle course in 6: 06.43 min. In 2013 he became the Italian U18 indoor champion over 1000 m. After becoming the Italian U20 indoor champion over 1500 meters in 2014, he was about to quit athletics. With the encouragement of his coach Vittorio Di Saverio and his teammate Yassin Bouih , he decided to start again in 2015. After the middle season, he won the national U23 championship title in the obstacle course in 2016 and also finished sixth in the adult category. Between May and June 2016 he improved his 3000 meter obstacle time by almost 15 seconds to 8: 51.84 minutes.

In 2017 Abdelwaled became Italian runner-up over 3000 m obstacle with a season best of 8: 36.73 min. A few weeks later, he started over this distance at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz, where he won the silver medal behind his compatriot Yohanes Chiappinelli . In August he took eighth place at the 2017 Universiade in Taipei. In 2018 he ran a time of 8: 26.02 minutes in a competition in Kortrijk, Belgium, which was a personal best. During this time, he moved up to sixth place on the Italian best list in this discipline. In the run-up to the European Championships in Berlin, he was only two seconds behind this time and thus moved into the final. There he could not build on the lead time and finished in 13th place. In September he won silver at the national championships over 1500 m. In 2019 he became Italian champion over 3000 m obstacle for the first time.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	time
Starts for Italy
2017	U23 European Championships	Bydgoszcz	2.	3000 m obstacle	8: 37.02 min
	Universiade	Taipei	8th.	3000 m obstacle	8: 47.72 min
2018	European championships	Berlin	13.	3000 m obstacle	8: 44.77 min

Personal best

open air

• 3000 m obstacle : 8: 26.02 min, July 14, 2018, Kortrijk

Hall

• 3000 m: 8: 12.08 min, February 5, 2017, Ancona

Web links

Commons : Ahmed Abdelwahed  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ahmed Abdelwahed in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ahmed Abdelwahed in the database of European Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry at FIDAL
2. ↑ Abdelwahed, che progresso in Belgio! ( Italian ) July 14, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2020.