Creve Armando Machava (born 8 February 1996) is a Mozambican athlete specialising in the

400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once a ...

. He represented his country at the 2017 World Championships without reaching the semifinals. In addition, he won the gold medal at the

2017 Islamic Solidarity Games The 4th Islamic Solidarity Games was a multinational, multi-sport event that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 12 to 22 May 2017. Previously the event has been held in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and Indonesia in 2013. The second event, originally sch ...

. His personal best in the event is 49.54 seconds set in Marrocos in 2019. He competed in the men's 400 metres hurdles event at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

International competitions

¹Did not finish in the final

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* 1996 births Living people Mozambican male hurdlers World Athletics Championships athletes for Mozambique Commonwealth Games competitors for Mozambique Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Maputo Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games African Games competitors for Mozambique Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Mozambique 21st-century Mozambican people {{Mozambique-athletics-bio-stub