Mohammed Ahmed (athlete)

Mohammed Ahmed
Mohammed Ahmed, Rio 2016
nation	Canada
birthday	5th January 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Mogadishu ,  Somalia
Career
discipline	Long distance running
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships bronze Doha 2019 5000 m
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

• 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 )