Ismaïl Sghyr

Ismaïl Sghyr medal table
Athletics / long distance running
France
European Athletics Cup
gold	2001 Bremen	5000 meters
Mediterranean Games
gold	1997 Bari	10,000 meters

Ismaïl Sghyr ( Arabic اسماعيل صغير; * March 16, 1972 in Douar Ain Chaib near Ouled Teima , Taroudannt province ) is a French long-distance runner of Moroccan origin.

In 1988 he moved to Bordeaux . At the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1995 he was fourth over 5000 m and eleventh at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta over the same distance. He finished eighth in the 1996 and 1997 cross-country championships . Also in 1997 he won bronze at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Paris over 3000 m and gold at the Mediterranean Games over 10,000 m . At the World Championships in Athens he was fourth over 5000 m. Two years later he came in 15th place at the World Championships in Seville over 10,000 m and won the Course de l'Escalade .

He became a French citizen on September 24 of the same year. He was absent from the 2000 Olympic Games because the Moroccan Association refused to release him.

In 2001, now starting for France, he was fifth over 5000 m at the World Championships in Edmonton , and the following year he won silver over the same distance at the European Championships in Munich .

In 2003 he was tenth at the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis over 10,000 m and at the Amsterdam Marathon . The following year he finished eighth in the Paris Half Marathon , finished eighth over 10,000 m at the Olympic Games in Athens and came third in the Great North Run .

He was also third at the beginning of the following season in the Paris Half Marathon. At the Rotterdam Marathon he came in 16th and qualified for the marathon of the World Championships in Helsinki , where he, plagued by cramps, came only 55th place.

Ismaïl Sghyr is 1.68 m tall and weighs 50 kg. He was trained by Abdelkader Kada and started first for Stade Bordeaux, later for UA Gujan-Mestras.

Personal bests

• 1500 m : 3: 36.20 min, June 21, 1995, Talence
• 2000 m : 4: 52.88 min, July 12, 1995, Nice
• 3000 m: 7: 30.09 min, July 25, 1995, Monaco
  • Hall: 7: 37.93 min, February 16, 1997, Liévin
• 5000 m: 12: 58.83 min, July 28, 2000, Oslo (current French record)
• 10,000 m: 27: 12.39 min, July 30, 1999, Stockholm
• Half marathon : 1:02:24 h, March 7, 2004, Paris
• Marathon: 2:11:27 h, October 19, 2003, Amsterdam

Web links

• Ismail Sghyr in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ismaïl Sghyr in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at the FFA
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr