 Firdaus in 2021 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Muhammad Noor Firdaus Ar-Rasyid bin Haji Mohd Idris 22 October 1996 |
| Sport | |
| Country | Brunei |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 100 meters, 200 meters |
| Coached by | Isidro del Prado [1] |
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Muhammad Noor Firdaus Ar-Rasyid bin Haji Mohd Idris [2] (born 22 October 1996) or also known as DausKhan, [3] is a sprinter from Brunei, who specialises in the 200 metres. [4]
Firdaus began competing in athletics in May 2013, at the age of 16 years old, as a representative for his school in the BDAF (Brunei Darussalam Athletics Federation) Olympic Day event. He ran in the 100-metres event, winning the gold, but finished third in the 200 meter event. October of that same year, he won gold in the 100-metres and 200-metres races at the Brunei Open (junior category). His first competition was in the Malaysia Open in Perlis in 2014, when he set a 4x100 metres relay national record that had stood for more than 15 years. From there, he moved on to join the national athletics squad. [3]
On 9 December 2016, at the 9th BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games, he won his second gold medal in the 200m race. A day earlier, he had won gold in the 100-meter event. [5]
Firdaus competed in 200-metres at the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships, where he ran a time of 21.99 seconds. [6] He currently holds the national record for the men's 200-metres event with a time of 21.39 s, which he achieved at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games. [7]
He competed in the 100 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [8]
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