Abdalelah Haroun

Abdalelah Haroun
Haroun at the 2017 World Championships
Personal information
Nationality Qatari
Born 1997 (age 20–21)
Sudan
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Country  Qatar
Sport Athletics
Event(s) 400 metres
Coached by Jama Aden[1]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 400 m: 44.07 (2018)
500 m(indoors): 59.83 WB (Stockholm 2016)
Medal record
Men's athletics
World Championships
2017 London400 m
World Indoor Championships
2016 Portland400 m
Continental Cup
2018 Ostrava400 m
Asian Games
2018 Jakarta400 m
2018 JakartaMen's 4×400 m
Asian Athletics Championships
2015 Wuhan400 m
2015 Wuhan 4×400 m relay

Abdalelah Haroun Hassan (Arabic: عبد الإله هارون‎; born 1 January 1997) is a Qatari track and field sprinter. He specialises in the 400 metres. He is the 2015 Asian champion in the event and holds the Asian indoor record.

Haroun was recruited at a young age from Sudan by Qatar. He gained eligibility to represent Qatar in February 2015.[2] His first recorded performance was a time of 45.74 seconds for the 400 m in Doha in April 2014, which placed him among the world's most promising young sprinters for the event.[3][4] He announced himself on the elite scene in his next performance at the XL Galan in February 2015 by running an Asian indoor record of 45.39 seconds, which was also the third fastest ever by a junior category athlete and the fastest ever indoor debut.[5][6] His next outing one month later he set an outdoor best of 44.68 seconds.[7] He was a comfortable victor at the 2015 Arab Athletics Championships in April, beating Egypt's Anas Beshr by nearly a second.[8]

He ran at the Doha Diamond League meeting and won the non-Diamond-race contest with another sub-45-second run.[9] On his IAAF Diamond League debut proper, he finished fifth at the Prefontaine Classic.[10] He quickly established himself as one of Asia's top senior athletes at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships by beating two-time defending champion Yousef Masrahi of Saudi Arabia in the 400 m final with his third 44.68-second clocking of the season. Masrahi was indignant about losing to his younger rival, saying "44.68 is nothing for me actually. I will come back. I will break the Asian record again".[11]

Personal bests

  • 400 metres outdoors: 44.27 seconds (2015)
  • 400 metres indoors: 45.39 seconds (2015) AR

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2015 Arab Championships Isa Town, Bahrain 1st 400 m 44.68
Asian Championships Wuhan, China 1st 400 m 44.68
2016 Asian Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 1st 400 m 45.88
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:08.20
World Indoor Championships Portland, United States 2nd 400 m 45.59
World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 1st 400 m 44.81
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 23rd (sf) 400 m 46.66
2017 World Championships London, Great Britain 3rd 400 m 44.48
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 1st 400 m 45.68
12th (sf) 800 m 2:07.94
2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:12.58
2018 Asian Indoor Championships Tehran, Iran 1st 400 m 46.37
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:10.08
World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom – 400 m DQ

References

  1. ↑ NBC Rio 2016 bio
  2. ↑ Le Qatar et le Bahrein renforcent leurs équipes (in French). SPE15 (2015-02-15). Retrieved on 2015-06-04.
  3. ↑ Abdelalelah Haroun. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-04.
  4. ↑ 400 Metres - men - junior - outdoor - 2014. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-04.
  5. ↑ Julin, A. Lennart (2015-02-19). Dibaba sets world indoor 5000m record in Stockholm. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-04.
  6. ↑ Qatar's rising stars set to shine in Doha – IAAF Diamond League. IAAF (2015-05-06). Retrieved on 2015-06-04.
  7. ↑ LaShawn Merritt and Kirani James to battle in 400 at Pre Classic . LetsRun (2015-05-07). Retrieved on 2015-06-04.
  8. ↑ ALGÉRIE AU 19 EME. CHAMPIONNAT PANARABES D’ATHLÉTISME BAHREÏN / MANAMA 24 - 27/04/2015 Archived June 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.. Algeria Athletics Stats. Retrieved on 2015-05-04.
  9. ↑ Tripathi, Rajeev (2015-05-16). Qatar's Haroun fastest Asian in 400m Diamond League. Qatar Tribune. Retrieved on 2015-06-04.
  10. ↑ Abdalleleh Haroun. Diamond League. Retrieved on 2015-06-04.
  11. ↑ Wu, Vincent (2015-06-04). Qatari sprinters dominate at Asian Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-04.
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