Ali Khamis

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Ali Khamis
Ali Khamis, Boniface Mucheru Tumuti, 2015.jpg
Ali Khamis (back) at the 2015 Military World Games
Personal information
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain
Sport Track and field
Event 400 metres
Medal record
Asian Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Incheon 400 m hurdles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Jakarta 400 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Jakarta Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay
Asian Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Pune 400 m

Ali Khamis Abbas Ali Khamis [1] (born 30 June 1995) is a Bahraini track and field athlete who competes mainly in the 400 metres sprint and 400 metres hurdles. His personal best for the flat event is 44.36 seconds, set in 2013, while his hurdles best is 49.55 seconds, set in 2014. He was the 2014 Asian Games champion in the hurdles and the runner-up in the sprint at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships

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Career

Khamis made his international debut at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics. There he ran in the heats of the 400 m hurdles and set a personal best of 54.27 seconds over the youth height barriers. [2] He also was part of Bahrain's Swedish medley relay team. [1] At the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships – despite winning his heat in a best of 52.67 seconds – he faltered in the 400 m hurdles final and finished last. [3] He also competed at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, running in the heats only. [2]

Two national junior records in the 400 metres sprint came for Khamis at the 2013 Arab Athletics Championships: he ran 46.90 seconds in the qualifiers then 46.25 seconds in the final to take the bronze medal (his first senior podium finish) behind Saudi athletes Yousef Masrahi and Ismail Al-Sabiani. [4] He reached the podium for a second time that year at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships. wtsh

repeated as champion, Khamis took the silver medal with a significant new best time of 45.65 seconds. [5]

Khamis began his 2014 season with a 400 m sprint/hurdles double at the Arab Junior Athletics Championships in Cairo. He made his debut on the IAAF Diamond League circuit in May, running in the 400 m at the Doha Diamond League and placing runner-up. [4] The hurdles remained his focus that year, as he returned in the event at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics. He set a string of bests at the competition, improving from 51.10 in the heats to 49.55 seconds in the final – a time which brought him second place to Jamaica's Jaheel Hyde. [2] [6] He maintained this form at the 2014 Asian Games held two months later and a run of 49.71 seconds was enough for the Bahraini teenager to win the 400 m hurdles gold medal. [7] He ranked in the top fifty worldwide and second in Asia on time that season, behind only Kazakhstan's Dmitriy Koblov. [8]

Achievements

Personal bests

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
2011 World Youth Championships Lille, France4th (heats) 400 m hurdles 54.27
(heats)Medley relay1:59.16
2012 Asian Junior Championships Colombo, Sri Lanka8th400 m hurdles57.45
World Junior Championships Barcelona, Spain7th (heats) 400 m hurdles 53.90
2013 Arab Championships Doha, Qatar3rd400 m46.25
Asian Championships Pune, India2nd 400 m 45.65
2014 Arab Junior Championships Cairo, Egypt1st400 m46.15
1st400 m hurdles51.42
World Junior Championships Eugene, United States2nd 400 m hurdles 49.55
Asian Games Incheon, South Korea1st 400 m hurdles 49.71
2015 Arab Championships Isa Town, Bahrain1st400 m hurdles50.10
Military World Games Munyeong, South Korea6th 400 m hurdles 50.94
— 4 × 400 m relay DQ
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil6th 400 m 44.36
2018 Asian Games Jakarta, Indonesia 3rd 400 m 45.70
5th 4 × 400 m relay 3:03.97
2022 GCC Games Kuwait City, Kuwait 3rd400 m45.96
1st4 × 400 m relay3:06.20

References

  1. 1 2 KHAMIS Ali Khamis Abbas Ali [usurped] . Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-02.
  2. 1 2 3 Ali Khamis Honours. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-10-02.
  3. ↑ Asian Junior Championships 2012. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2014-10-02.
  4. 1 2 Ali Khamis Abbas. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-10-02.
  5. ↑ Chinese sprinters take away 100m titles at Asian Championships. IAAF (2013-07-04). Retrieved on 2014-10-02.
  6. ↑ Morse, Parker (2014-07-26). Report: men's 400m hurdles – IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-10-02.
  7. ↑ Mulkeen, Jon (2014-10-01). Records and rules broken in 800m finals at Asian Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-10-02.
  8. ↑ 400 Metres Hurdles - men - senior - outdoor - 2014. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-10-02.
  9. ↑ "Ali Khamis KHAMIS". All Athletics. Archived from the original on 2018-04-12.
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