Abdihakem Abdirahman
![]() Abdirahman at the 2012 Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Abdihakim Abdirahman | |||||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||
Born | (1977-01-01) January 1, 1977 (age 47) Mogadishu, Somalia | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 134 lb (61 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track, Long-distance running | |||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 10,000 meters, Marathon | |||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 3000 meters: 7:47.63[1] 2-mile: 8:29.26[1] 5000 meters: 13:13.32[1] 10,000 meters: 27:16.99[1] Marathon: 2:08:56[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Abdihakim "Abdi" Abdirahman (Somali: Cabdihakiim Cabdiraxmaan, Arabic: عبد الحكيم عبد الرحمن; born January 1, 1977) is an American long-distance runner. He is a five-time Olympian competing for the United States in the 10,000 meters and the marathon.
Running career
Born in Mogadishu, Somalia,[2] Abdirahman graduated from Tucson High School in 1995 and attended Pima Community College before transferring to the University of Arizona for his junior and senior years. He was inducted into the Pima County Sports Hall of Fame located in Tucson in 2019. He became a U.S. citizen in 2000. [3]
At Arizona, Abdirahman was named the 1998 Pacific-10 Conference Cross Country Male Athlete of the Year. He finished second at the 1998 NCAA Cross Country Championships.[3]
Abdirahman competed in five straight IAAF World Cross Country Championships between 2000 and 2004, with a best finishing place of 11th in 2002.
He competed in the 10,000 meters at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing tenth and fifteenth, respectively. He also finished seventh in the 10,000 meters at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, his best finish after placing 19th in 2003 and 13th in 2005.
In 2008, Abdirahman won the 10,000 meters at the US Olympic Trials. He also was the men's division champion of the Monument Avenue 10K in Richmond, VA.
His personal best time in the 10,000 meters is 27:16.99 minutes, achieved in June 2008 at Hayward Field during the Prefontaine Classic.
On January 14, 2012, Abdirahman qualified for the 2012 Olympics by finishing third in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trial in Houston.[4] At the 2012 Olympics he dropped out of the marathon before the halfway mark with a knee injury.[5]
Abdirahman finished 3rd in the 2016 TCS New York City Marathon in a time of 2:11:23.
At the 2020 United States Olympic Trials in Atlanta, Abdirahman finished 3rd in the marathon with a time of 2:10:03, one second behind Jake Riley securing his place on a fifth Olympic team, and, at 43, becoming the oldest American runner ever to make the Olympic team.[6] In the men's marathon at the 2020 Summer Olympics he finished 41st.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d e All-Athletics. "Profile of Abdi Abdirahman".
- ^ "USA Track & Field – Abdi Abdirahman".
- ^ a b "Biography – The Official Website of Abdi Abdirahman". Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
- ^ AP (January 14, 2012). "Keflezighi, Flanagan run to victory at U.S. Olympic marathon trials". CNN.com. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
- ^ "USA's Ryan Hall drops out of marathon". USA Today. August 12, 2012.
- ^ "Galen Rupp and Aliphine Tuliamuk win U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials". Olympic Channel. Archived from the original on February 29, 2020. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
- ^ "Athletics - ABDIRAHMAN Abdi". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on September 2, 2021. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
External links
- Abdi Abdirahman at World Athletics
- Abdi Abdirahman at www.USATF.org
- Abdi Abdirahman at legacy.USATF.org (archived)
- Abdi Abdirahman at Team USA (archive March 31, 2023)
- Abdi Abdirahman at Olympedia
- Abdihakem Abdirahman at ARRS
- Abdihakem Abdirahman at Olympics.com
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived June 4, 2010)
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New York Athletic Club
- 1876–79: Not held
NAAAA
- 1880: James Gifford
- 1881: W. C. Davies
- 1882–83: Tom Delaney
- 1884: Geo. Stonebridge
- 1885: Peter Skillman
- 1886–87: Edward Carter
- 1888Note 1: Thomas Conneff
Amateur Athletic Union
- 1888–91Note 1: Thomas Conneff
- 1892–93: William Day
- 1894: Charles Bean
- 1899: Alex Grant
- 1900: Arthur Newton
- 1901: Frank Kanahy
- 1902: Alex Grant
- 1903: Not held
- 1904: John Joyce
- 1905: Frank Verner
- 1906: Wm. Nelson
- 1907: John Daly
- 1908: Fred Bellars
- 1909: Harry McLean
- 1910: William Kramer
- 1911: George Bonhag
- 1912: Hannes Kolehmainen (FIN) * Harry Smith
- 1913: Hannes Kolehmainen (FIN) * Joie Ray
- 1914: Ville Kyrönen (FIN) * H. E. Weeks
- 1915: Hannes Kolehmainen (FIN) * Oliver Millard
- 1916: Joie Ray
- 1917–19: Charles Pores
- 1920OT: Not held
- 1921–23: Earle Johnson
- 1924: Ilmar Prim
- 1925: George Lermond
- 1926: Phillip Osif
- 1927: Willie Ritola (FIN) * Russell Payne
- 1928OT: Joie Ray
- 1929-31: Lou Gregory
- 1932OT: Tom Ottey
- 1933: Lou Gregory
- 1934: Eino Pentti
- 1935: Tom Ottey
- 1936: Don Lash
- 1937–38: Eino Pentti
- 1939: Lou Gregory
- 1940: Don Lash
- 1941: Lou Gregory
- 1942: Joe McCluskey
- 1943: Lou Gregory
- 1944: Norm Bright
- 1945: Ted Vogel
- 1946–48: Edward O'Toole
- 1949: Fred Wilt
- 1950: Horace Ashenfelter
- 1951–54: Curt Stone
- 1955: Dick Hart
- 1956: Max Truex
- 1957: Doug Kyle
- 1958: John Macy
- 1959:
- 1960: Al Lawrence (AUS) * Max Truex
- 1961: John Gutknecht
- 1962: Bruce Kidd (CAN) * Peter McArdle
- 1963–64: Peter McArdle
- 1965: Billy Mills
- 1966: Tracy Smith
- 1967: Van Nelson
- 1968: Tracy Smith
- 1969–70: Jack Bacheler
- 1971: Frank Shorter
- 1972: Greg Fredericks
- 1973: Gordon Minty (GBR) * Ted Castaneda
- 1974–75: Frank Shorter
- 1976: Ed Leddy
- 1977: Frank Shorter
- 1978–79: Craig Virgin
- 1980: Rodolfo Gómez
- Garry Bjorklund
The Athletics Congress
- 1981: Alberto Salazar
- 1982: Craig Virgin
- 1983: Alberto Salazar
- 1984: Jon Sinclair
- 1985: Bruce Bickford
- 1986–87: Gerard Donakowski
- 1988: Steve Taylor
- 1989: Pat Porter
- 1990: Steve Plasencia
- 1991: Shannon Butler
- 1992OT: Todd Williams
USA Track & Field
- 1993: Todd Williams
- 1994: Tom Ansberry
- 1995–96: Todd Williams
- 1997: Michael Mykytok
- 1998: Dan Browne
- 1999: Alan Culpepper
- 2000OT: Meb Keflezighi
- 2001: Abdi Abdirahman
- 2002: Meb Keflezighi
- 2003: Alan Culpepper
- 2004: Meb Keflezighi
- 2005: Abdi Abdirahman
- 2006: Jorge Torres
- 2007–08: Abdi Abdirahman
- 2009–16: Galen Rupp
- 2017: Hassan Mead
- 2018–19: Lopez Lomong
- 20212020 OT: Woody Kincaid
- 2022: Galen Rupp
- 2023: Woody Kincaid
- Note 1: In 1888 both the NAAAA and the AAU held championships
- OT: The 1920, 1928, 1932, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Distance: Until 1924 the event was 5 miles; from 1925–27 and from 1929–31 it was over 6 miles.