# Mustafa Mohamed (Mustafe Maxamed)

> Mustafa Mohamed (born 1979): Mogadishu-born Swedish steeplechaser and marathon runner, Swedish record holder.

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## Who is he?

Mustafa Hassan Mohamed is a Swedish long-distance runner who mainly ran the 3000 m steeplechase ([Wikipedia, Mustafa Mohamed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Mohamed)). See [sport in Somalia](/en/society/sport-in-somalia/).

## Early life

He was born in Mogadishu in 1979 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Mohamed)). At 11 he moved to Sweden and later became a Swedish citizen (same source). He lives in Lysekil and runs for the club Hälle IF (same source). See [Somalis in Sweden](/en/diaspora/sweden/).

## Steeplechase

He was eighth at the 1998 World Junior Championships ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Mohamed)). He ran 8:18.05 in the steeplechase at the 2004 Athens Olympics (same source). He was tenth at the 2005 World Championships and fourth at the 2006 European Championships (same source).

On 28 July 2007 he ran 8:05.75, breaking a Swedish record that had stood for 31 years ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Mohamed)). Later that season he was fourth at the World Championships (same source).

## Cross country and track titles

At the Nordic Cross Country Championships he won bronze as a junior in 1997, silver in 2003 and gold in 2006 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Mohamed)). He won bronze at the 2006 European Cross Country Championships (same source). At the 2010 Swedish championships he won the steeplechase, 5000 m and 10,000 m, the second man to do so after Dan Glans in 1976 (same source).

## Marathon

He ran his first marathon in Hamburg in 2012, in 2:12:28 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Mohamed)). In 2020 in Seville he ran 2:10:03, breaking a Swedish marathon record that had stood for 36 years (same source).

## In short

A Mogadishu-born Swedish runner who set national records in the steeplechase in 2007 and the marathon in 2020.

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