Mohamed Issangar

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Mohamed Issangar
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Mohamed Issangar (born 12 December 1964) is a retired Moroccan long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 metres.

He competed at the 1991 World Championships without reaching the final, [1] finished ninth at the 1992 Olympic Games, [2] and fourth in the 1993 IAAF Grand Prix Final. [1] He finished sixteenth at the 1994 World Cross Country Championships, and for this he won a silver medal with the Moroccan team in the team competition. [3] This was the first team medal claimed by Morocco in this event. [4]

On the regional level he won the bronze medal at the 1989 Jeux de la Francophonie, behind countryfellows Saïd Aouita and Khalid Skah. This was one of three all-Moroccan podiums in this event at the Jeux de la Francophonie (the other being 1994: Salah Hissou, Brahim Lahlafi, Brahim Jabbour and 2001: Mohamed Amine, Abderrahim Goumri, Mohamed Saïd El Wardi). [5] Issangar also won bronze medals at the 1988 and 1990 African Championships. [6]

His personal best times were 3.57.03 minutes in the mile run, achieved in August 1990 in Monaco; [7] 7.39.30 minutes in the 3000 metres, achieved in August 1993 in Köln; [8] 13.08.51 minutes in the 5000 metres, achieved in July 1990 in London; [9] and 1.02.18 hours in the half marathon, achieved in March 1992 in Aïn Sebaâ. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 Mohamed Issangar at World Athletics OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. "Mohamed Issangar". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  3. "IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.1km CC Men - Budapest Kincsem Park Date: Saturday, March 26, 1994". Athchamps. Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  4. "World and World Student Cross Country Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  5. "Francophone Games". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  6. "African Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  7. World men's all-time best 1 mile (last updated 2001)
  8. World men's all-time best 3000m (last updated 2001)
  9. World men's all-time best 5000m (last updated 2001)
  10. World men's all-time best half marathon (last updated 2001)