Mostafa Smaili

Mostafa Smaili
nation	Morocco
birthday	9th January 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Ifrane , Morocco
size	164 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	1: 44.90 min
society	Athlétic Jeunes Bastia
status	active
Medal table
African Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Mediterranean Games 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
African Championships bronze Asaba 2018 800 m  Mediterranean Games silver Tarragona 2018 800 m  U20 world championships bronze Bydgoszcz 2016 800 m
last change: March 13, 2020

Mostafa Smaili ( Arabic مصطفى إسماعيلي, DMG Muṣṭafā Ismāʿīlī ; Born January 9, 1997 in Ifrane ) is a Moroccan middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800-meter run .

Athletic career

Mostafa Smaili gained his first experience at international championships at the African Youth Games in Gaborone in 2014 , where he won the bronze medal in the 1,500 meter run in 3: 47.99 minutes and thus qualified for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing , where he was in 3: 46.28 min took fourth place. In 2016 he reached sixth place at the World Indoor Championships in Portland in 1: 52.32 min over 800 meters and then won the bronze medal at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz in 1: 46.02 min. He also qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he reached the semi-finals , in which he was eliminated with 1: 45.78 min. In 2017 he won the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku in 1: 45.78 minutes and then won the silver medal behind his compatriot Oussama Nabil at the Francophonie Games in Abidjan in 1: 46.73 minutes . He then took part in the World Championships in London for the first time, but was eliminated there with 1: 47.50 minutes in advance .

In 2018 he reached sixth place at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 1: 48.75 minutes and then won the silver medal behind the Spaniard Álvaro de Arriba at the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona in 1: 47.56 minutes . He then won the bronze medal at the African Championships in Asaba in 1: 45.90 minutes behind the Botswana Nijel Amos and Emmanuel Korir from Kenya. The following year he took part in the Africa Games in Rabat for the first time , where he finished fifth in 1: 45.73 minutes. At the World Championships in Doha he reached the semifinals , in which he was eliminated with 1: 45.78 min.

Personal bests

• 800 meters: 1: 44.90 min, September 4, 2018 in Zagreb
  • 800 meters (hall): 1: 45.96 min, February 10, 2018 in Gent
• 1500 meters: 3: 38.60 min, June 9, 2017 in Belfort
  • 1500 meters (hall): 3: 42.37 min, February 4th 2017 in Mondeville

Web links

Commons : Mostafa Smaili  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mostafa Smaili in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Mostafa Smaili in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )