Gulnara Iskanderovna Samitova-Galkina is a Russian distance runner. In July 2004 she ran 3000 metres steeplechase in a new world record of 9:01.59 minutes. Early that year she won a bronze medal over 1500 metres at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Hind Dehiba Chahyd is a Moroccan-French runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.
Nuria Fernández Domínguez is a Spanish middle distance runner. She specialises in the 1500 metres and is the Spanish record holder in the mile run and the 1500 m indoors.
Monder Rizki is a Belgian long-distance runner. He was born in Brussels.
Ancuța Bobocel is a Romanian middle-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She represented Romania at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics and is a three-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics. In 2009, she won the European U23 and Jeux de la Francophonie steeplechase titles, as well as a silver at the Summer Universiade.
The 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was the 14th edition of the global-level indoor track and field competition and was held between March 9–11, 2012 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. It was the first of four IAAF World Athletics Series events in 2012, which includes the World Race Walking Cup, the World Junior Championships and the World Half Marathon Championships.
Yoann Kowal is a French middle and long-distance runner. He formerly specialized in the 1500 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase before switching to longer races such as the 10,000 metres.
Marcin Przemysław Lewandowski is a Polish retired middle-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships and silver in the same event at the 2018 World Indoor Championships. At the European Athletics Championships, Lewandowski claimed gold in the 800 metres in 2010 and silvers in 2016 and 2018 for the 800 m and 1500 m respectively. He took also five medals at the European Indoor Championships, including three golds between 2015 and 2019, and two silvers in 2011 and 2021.
Ayanleh Souleiman, also known as Hassan Ayanleh is a Djiboutian middle distance runner who specialises in the 1500 metres. He is the Djiboutian record holder for the distance, with his best of 3:29.58 minutes, as well as being the 3000 metres holder with 7:42.22 minutes. He also holds the indoor world record for the 1000-meter which he achieved at the 2016 Globengalan event in Stockholm Sweden. He also set a new IAAF Diamond League record at the IAAF Diamond League in August 2016 in the men's 1000 meters
Eunice Jepkoech Sum is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres. She was the 2013 World champion and won the bronze medal in 2015. Sum took a silver and a gold at the 2012 and 2014 African Championships in Athletics respectively. She was also 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist and a three-time successive Diamond League winner in 2013–15.
Maury Surel Castillo is a Cuban athlete specializing in the 800 and 1500 metres events.
Sandra Soares Teixeira is a Portuguese athlete specialising in the middle distance events. She represented her country at four World Indoor Championships. She is of Cape Verdean descent.
Federico Bruno is an Argentine middle- and long-distance runner. He is 1.85 m and weighs 66 kilograms (146 lb). He was the winner of the 1500 metres at the 2014 South American Games and is a three-time medallist over the distance at the South American Championships in Athletics.
Patrick Nasti is an Italian athlete competing primarily in the 3000 metres steeplechase.
Kaur Kivistik is an Estonian athlete competing in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He won the silver medal at the 2015 Summer Universiade.
Simon Ayeko is a Ugandan distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He was the gold medallist in that event at the 2011 Military World Games. He has twice represented Uganda at both the World Championships in Athletics and the IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Amine Khadiri is a Moroccan-born Cypriot middle-distance runner who competes primarily in the 1500 metres. He has won multiple medals at the Games of the Small States of Europe.
Elzan Bibić is a Serbian middle- and long-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 2019 European Under-23 Championships.
Adrián Ben Montenegro is a Spanish middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres and 1500 m. He won the gold medal in the 800 m at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.
Emmanuel Bor is a Kenyan-born American long-distance runner. He competed collegiately for the University of Alabama. His brothers Hillary and Julius have also been professional runners; however, Julius retired in 2018. After graduating college, Bor joined the US Army and currently competes with the World Class Athlete Program based in Fort Carson, Colorado.
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