Ahmed Salah

Hossein Ahmed Salah ( Arabic حسين أحمد صلاح; born December 31, 1956 in Ali Sabieh ) is a former Djiboutian marathon runner . He won the only Olympic medal in his country to date at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul .

In 1985 he won the first IAAF World Cup marathon in Hiroshima (Japan) in 2:08:09 hours. In the same year he became African champion in Cairo. At the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in 1987 , he won the silver medal in 2:12:30, 42 seconds behind Douglas Wakiihuri (KEN). At the athletics competitions of the Olympic Games in Seoul, he won the bronze medal with a time of 2:10:59, behind the Italian Gelindo Bordin (2:10:32) and Douglas Wakiihuri (2:10:47). He achieved his personal best in second place in the Rotterdam marathon in 1988 , when he stayed below the old world record with 2:07:07, just like the winner Belayneh Dinsamo .

At the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1991 , he again won a silver medal; this time he reached 2:15:26 and was 29 seconds behind Hiromi Taniguchi (JPN). In 1997, at the age of 40, he had his last major success: a victory at the Vienna City Marathon in 2:12:53.

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SURNAME	Salah, Ahmed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Djiboutian marathon runner and Olympic runner-up
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ali Sabieh