Peter Bol (athlete)

Career
Peter Bol
Peter Bol (2017)
Full name	Nagmeldin Bol
nation	Australia Australia
birthday	22nd February 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Khartoum , Sudan
size	177 cm
Weight	63 kg
discipline	800 m
Best performance	1: 44.56 min
society	St Kevins Athletics Club
status	active
last change: August 18, 2020

Nagmeldin "Peter" Bol (born February 22, 1994 in Khartoum , Sudan ) is an Australian athlete who specializes in the 800-meter run .

Life

Peter Bol was born as Nagmedlin Bol in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. When he was four years old, his parents fled with him from the ongoing fighting in the country of civil war and from then on lived in a refugee camp in Egypt for about four years before going to Australia and first arriving in Toowoomba , Queensland . They later settled in the city of Perth . There, Bol attended high school and started athletics in the same place after a teacher at the school advised him to focus on running. Instead, he dropped the other great passion from his childhood, playing basketball. Due to its location on the Australian west coast, it could only take part in a few local competitions and also had to do without the guidance of a trainer. In 2015 he finally moved to Melbourne , where he took up training under the guidance of Justin RInaldi, who also counts the holder of the 800 meter national record, Alexander Rowe , among his protégés. He graduated with a degree in construction management from Curtin University in his hometown.

Athletic career

In 2011 Bol, at that time still living on the west coast, took part in competitions in the region for the first time. At that time he was able to win the 800 and 1500 meters at the Western Australian Championships. In 2012 he improved his 800-meter time at the regional junior championships to 1: 54.26 min. In 2013, the Australian U20 Championships took place in his hometown. While he took fourth place over 400 meters, he emerged victorious over the 800 meters with a fastest time of 1: 48.90 minutes. In April he also competed in the Australian adult championships and was able to move into the final over 800 meters, but finished last. A year later he improved to fifth place at the same championships, this time in Melbourne, and also ran a time below 1: 48.00 min for the first time in 2014. Already early in the 2015 season he was able to clearly undercut his last record with 1: 46.51 minutes, although he was not able to confirm this time again later in the year. In 2015 he also took part in competitions on the European continent for the first time during the summer.

In 2016, Bol was one of four Australian athletes to run the qualifying norm for the Rio Summer Olympics , but only allowed a maximum of three athletes per nation to participate. In the end he was one of the three Australian starters in the 800 meters at the Olympic Games. In the run-up to this he improved in Belgium to 1: 45.41 min. At the games in August, however, he was almost four seconds behind that best time in the run-up and was therefore eliminated in sixth place in his run. In 2017, Bol improved to 1: 45.21 min in a competition in Mannheim in July and thus also met the norm for the World Championships in London. The picture was very similar to that of the previous year in Rio. Once again he was about four seconds behind his best performance set up shortly before the season highlight and was eliminated in seventh place in his heat. In 2018, he finished seventh at the Australian Championships in Gold Coast in February . Two months later, the Commonwealth Games took place at the same location, and Bol's achievements were not enough to qualify. In June, however, he was able to set a new best time of 1: 44.56 minutes in Stockholm, with which he slipped to fifth place on the Australian best list over 800 meters. In 2019, Bol became the Australian 800 meter champion for the first time in April and took part in the World Championships in Doha in September . He got a better time in the run this time, but it was only enough for fifth place in the run and thus the end before the semi-finals.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	time
Starts for AustraliaAustralia
2016	Olympic Summer Games	Brazil Rio de Janeiro	52.	800 m	1: 49.36 min
2017	World championships	United Kingdom London	33.	800 m	1: 49.65 min
2019	World championships	Qatar Doha	31.	800 m	1: 46.92 min

Personal best

open air

600 m: 1: 16.26 min, January 25, 2019, Glendale
800 m : 1: 44.56 min, June 10, 2018, Stockholm

Hall

800 m: 1: 47.70 min, February 12, 2019, Ostrava

Web links

Commons : Peter Bol (runner) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Peter Bol in the database of World Athletics (English)
Peter Bol in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Gleeson: Rio Olympics 2016: Peter Bol, the man who ran from Sudan to Australia. In: smh.com.au. August 12, 2016, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
↑ Nagmeldin 'Peter' Bol. In: ampstomorrowfund.com.au. Accessed August 18, 2020 .
↑ Pogo Physio: The Physical Performance Show: Peter Bol - AUS 800m Champion & Olympian. In: pogophysio.com.au. April 2, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bol, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bol, Nagmeldin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian athlete
DATE OF BIRTH	February 22, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH	Khartoum , Sudan

[1] Michael Gleeson: Rio Olympics 2016: Peter Bol, the man who ran from Sudan to Australia. In: smh.com.au. August 12, 2016, accessed on August 18, 2020 .

[2] Nagmeldin 'Peter' Bol. In: ampstomorrowfund.com.au. Accessed August 18, 2020 .

[3] Pogo Physio: The Physical Performance Show: Peter Bol - AUS 800m Champion & Olympian. In: pogophysio.com.au. April 2, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020 .