Belal Mansoor Ali

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Belal Mansoor Ali

Belal Mansoor Ali ( Arabic بلال منصور علي Bilal Mansur Ali , DMG Bilāl Manṣūr ʿAlī ; Maiden name John Kipkorir Yego ; * October 17, 1988 in Kenya ) is a Bahraini middle-distance runner of Kenyan origin.

At 16, Ali was the youngest athlete to reach a final at the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki. In the 800 meter run , he finished seventh with a time of 1: 45.55 minutes. In July 2005 he had already become youth world champion over 1500 m in Marrakech in the run-up to the world championships . At the World Championships in Helsinki he also started on this route, but failed in the semifinals.

Also 16 years old, he set a youth world record with 1: 44.34 minutes in Conegliano on June 17, 2005 , which was not surpassed by the end of the 2007 season.

In 2006 he was third in the 1500 meter run of the Junior World Championships. The following year at the World Championships in Osaka he was eliminated over 800 m in the preliminary run and came eleventh over the 1500 m course.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he was eighth in the 1500 m.

Personal bests

  • 800 m: 1: 44.02 min, September 9, 2007, Rieti
  • 1000 m: 2: 15.23 min, July 7th 2007, Stockholm
  • 1500 m: 3: 31.49 min, July 2, 2007, Athens
  • 1 mile : 3: 52.35 min, June 15, 2006, Oslo

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