Mohammed Ahmed (athlete)
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nation | Canada | ||||||
birthday | 5th January 1991 (age 29) | ||||||
place of birth | Mogadishu , Somalia | ||||||
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discipline | Long distance running | ||||||
status | active | ||||||
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last change: October 1st, 2019 |
Mohammed Ahmed (born January 5, 1991 in Mogadishu ) is a Canadian long-distance runner of Somali origin.
In 2012 he finished 18th at the Olympic Games in London over 10,000 m .
In the following year he finished 22nd at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz in 2013 and was ninth in the 10,000 m at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow .
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he was fifth over 5000 m and sixth over 10,000 m.
In 2015 he won the 10,000 m at the Pan American Games in Toronto .
Personal bests
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3000 m : 7: 40.49 min, August 29, 2017, Zagreb (Canadian record)
- Hall: 7: 40.11 min, February 20, 2016, New York City (Canadian record)
- 5000 m: 12: 47.20 min, July 10, 2020, Portland ( NACAC record)
- Hall: 13: 04.60 min, February 26, 2017, Boston (Canadian record)
- 10,000 m: 26: 59.35 min, October 6, 2019, Doha (Canadian record)
Web links
- Mohammed Ahmed in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Mohammed Ahmed in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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SURNAME | Ahmed, Mohammed |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian long distance runner |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th January 1991 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mogadishu |