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Jama Aden (Jaamac Aadan)
Jama Mohamed Aden (born 28 August 1962 in Ainabo) is a Somali former middle-distance runner and coach. He ran the 1500 metres for Somalia at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, then became a coach whose athletes include Olympic 1500 m champion Taoufik Makhloufi, Ayanleh Souleiman and Genzebe Dibaba. He was arrested in Spain in June 2016 in a doping case and acquitted in November 2022.
Jama AdenJaamac Aadan · Jama Mohamed Aden
- Lived
- 1962-08-28 to today
- Known as one of
- Sport
- Places
- Laascaanood and Sool
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
Who is he?
Jama Mohamed Aden is a Somali former middle-distance runner and coach, born on 28 August 1962 in Ainabo (Wikipedia, Jama Aden). He is the older brother of the runner Ibrahim Mohamed Aden (same source).
Runner
On an athletic scholarship at Fairleigh Dickinson University he set several school records, including a 3:56.82 mile, coached by the double Olympic champion Mal Whitfield (Wikipedia). He ran the 800 m and 1500 m for Somalia at the 1983 World Championships and the 1500 m at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, without reaching a final (same source).
Coach
After a master's in exercise physiology at George Mason University, he assisted John Cook in coaching Abdi Bile before Bile's 1987 world title (Wikipedia). Athletes he has coached include Abubaker Kaki, Ismail Ahmed Ismail, Taoufik Makhloufi (2012 Olympic 1500 m champion), Hamza Driouch, Ayanleh Souleiman and Genzebe Dibaba (same source). In 2011 he won the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Sports Excellence (same source).
Doping case
In 2015 two athletes he had coached, Laila Traby and Hamza Driouch, were suspended for doping violations; Driouch's ban related to a biological passport reading from the 2012 Olympics (Wikipedia). In June 2016 Aden was arrested in Spain after police raided his hotel room and found performance-enhancing substances (same source). After a long legal process he was acquitted of the charges in November 2022 (same source).
In short
A Somali Olympian who went on to coach Olympic and world champions in middle-distance running.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Jama Aden · en.wikipedia.org
Jama AdenJaamac Aadan · Jama Mohamed Aden
- Lived
- 1962-08-28 to today
- Known as one of
- Sport
- Places
- Laascaanood and Sool
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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