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| Nationality | Qatari | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400m: 45.85 (Potchefstroom, 2024) 400m hurdles: 47.72 (London, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ismail Doudai Abakar (born 1 January 2004) is a Qatari hurdler. [1]
He won gold in the 400m hurdles and silver in the 400m at the 2022 Arab U20 Athletics Championships in Radès, Tunisia. [2] [3] He competed at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. [4]
In February 2023, he was a silver medalist at the Asian Indoor Championships in the 4x400m relay in Kazakhstan. [5] In May 2023, he lowered his personal best in the 400m hurdles to 49.18 seconds at the 2023 Doha Diamond League. [6]
In June 2023, he was Asian U20 champion over both 400m and 400m hurdles in Yecheon, South Korea. [7] [8] In Bangkok in July 2023, he was a bronze medalist as part of the Qatari 4x400m team at the Asian Championships. [9] In October 2023 in Hangzhou he reached the final of the 400 metres at the delayed 2022 Asian Games, [10] and was a silver medalist in the 4x400m relay. [11]
In Potchefstroom, South Africa in March 2024, he ran a personal best time of 48.68 in the 400m hurdles that also met the qualifying standard for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games. [12] In May 2024, he ran as part of the Qatari team at the World Athletics Relay in Nassau, Bahamas. [13] That month, he competed in the 400m hurdles at the 2024 Doha Diamond League. [14] He lowered his 400m hurdles personal best to 47.72 seconds at the London Athletics Meet on 20 July 2024. [15]
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