Personal information | |
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Born | 16 February 1988 |
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) [1] |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 110 m hurdles, 60 m hurdles |
Ahmed Khader A. Al-Muwallad (born 16 February 1988) is a Saudi Arabian athlete specialising in the high hurdles. [2] He won a gold medal at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and a bronze at the 2017 Asian Championships. [3]
His personal bests are 13.36 seconds in the 110 metres hurdles (+0.9 m/s, Prague 2018) and 7.57 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Mondeville 2018). The latter is the current national record.
1Disqualified in the final
2Did not finish in the final
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