Cheick Camara

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Cheick Camara
Personal information
Full nameCheick Aboubacar Camara
Born (1998-04-16) 16 April 1998 (age 27)
Sport
CountryGuinea
Sport Track and field
Event Sprinting

Cheick Aboubacar Camara (born 16 April 1998) [1] is a Guinean sprinter. In 2019, he competed in the men's 100 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. [2]

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Career

In 2014, he competed in the boys' 100 metres event at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics held in Nanjing, China. [3]

In 2019, he also represented Guinea at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco. [4] He competed in the men's 200 metres event and he did not qualify to compete in the semi-finals. [4]

At the 2019 World Athletics Championships, Camara competed in the preliminary round 100 metres. He ran a personal best of 11.38 seconds but did not advance to compete in the heats. [2] He was called "the fastest glasses wearer in the world" by BBC Online in their coverage of the event. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Cheick Camara". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Men's 100 metres – Preliminary Round" (PDF). 2019 World Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "Athletics Results Book" (PDF). 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 October 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  4. 1 2 "2019 African Games – Athletics – Results Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  5. ↑ "Men's 100m prelims". bbc.com .


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