Ismail Ahmed Ismail
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Born | November 1, 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 800 metres | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 23 July 2012. |
Ismail Ahmed Ismail (born 1 November 1984) is a Sudanese runner, who specializes in the 800 metres. He was born in Khartoum.
Ismail reached the final in that event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He competed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where he won the silver medal in 800 m. He is the first Sudanese national to win an Olympic medal in history.
He won the gold medal at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games.
Ismail is a member of the Fur people of Darfur.[1] Although Ismail was born in Khartoum, where he grew up in the neighborhood of Hajj Youssef, his family was originally from western Darfur.[2]
Achievements[]
Personal bests[]
- 800 metres – 1:43.82 min (2009)
- 1500 metres – 3:41.97 min (2005)
References[]
- ^ "Darfur athletes train as Olympic row rages", Reuters, April 15, 2008
- ^ "Darfur runner wins Sudan's first Olympic medal - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan". www.sudantribune.com.
External links[]
- Ismail Ahmed Ismail at World Athletics
- Ismail Ahmed Ismail at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Ismail Ahmed Ismail at the International Olympic Committee
Categories:
- 1984 births
- Living people
- People from Khartoum
- People from Darfur
- Sudanese male middle-distance runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 African Games
- Olympic athletes of Sudan
- Olympic silver medalists for Sudan
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Sudan
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- African Games competitors for Sudan
- Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Sudan
- Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in athletics
- Eastern African athletics biography stubs
- Sudanese sportspeople stubs
- African Olympic medalist stubs