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Mustafa Mohamed (Mustafe Maxamed)
Mustafa Hassan Mohamed (born 1 March 1979) is a Somali-born Swedish long-distance runner. Born in Mogadishu, he moved to Sweden at 11. He ran the steeplechase at the 2004 Olympics, set a Swedish 3000 m steeplechase record of 8:05.75 in 2007, and in 2020 broke the Swedish marathon record with 2:10:03 in Seville.
Mustafa MohamedMustafe Maxamed · Mustafa Hassan Mohamed
- Lived
- 1979-03-01 to today
- Known as one of
- Sport
- Places
- Muqdisho and Banaadir
- 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?
Mustafa Hassan Mohamed is a Swedish long-distance runner who mainly ran the 3000 m steeplechase (Wikipedia, Mustafa Mohamed). See sport in Somalia.
Early life
He was born in Mogadishu in 1979 (Wikipedia). 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.
Steeplechase
He was eighth at the 1998 World Junior Championships (Wikipedia). 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). 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). 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). 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.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Mustafa Mohamed · en.wikipedia.org
Mustafa MohamedMustafe Maxamed · Mustafa Hassan Mohamed
- Lived
- 1979-03-01 to today
- Known as one of
- Sport
- Places
- Muqdisho and Banaadir
- 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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