El Amin Chentouf, (Arabic: الأمين شنتوف) (born 9 June 1981) is a Moroccan para-athlete running in T12 distance races. He has represented his country at three

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winning gold medals at each competition. Outside the Paralympics, Chentouf is also a world series Marathon champion, winning the T12/13 event at three

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Personal history

Chentouf was born in Morocco in 1981. He is visually impaired.

Career history

Chentouf took up athletics in 2008. He made his senior international debut at the

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in London. He entered into three events, the

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and

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at T12 classifications and the 1,500m T13 race. He reached the podium in the 5,000m, taking gold with a world record breaking time of 13:53.76. The following year he entered the IPC Athletics Marathon World Cup in London, his first competitive international marathon. He won the race in a time of 2:24:00, setting another world record in the T12 class. The same year he represented Morocco at the

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in Lyon, Chentouf won gold medals in all three of his events, the 1500m, 5000m and the marathon. Two years later, in the buildup to the

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in Rio de Janeiro, he took part in the inaugural IPC World Marathon Championships held in London. There he won the men's T11/T12 race with a time of 2:21.33. Later in the year he took part in his second World Championships, this time held in Doha. He failed to dominate the field as he had done so at Lyon, but he did win the bronze in the 1500 metres (T13). In Rio Chentouf cemented his reputation as one of the great distance runners in his class, by winning the men's marathon and taking the silver medal in the 5000 metres.

External links

Video of the final 5000 meters men's T12 World Championships 2013 wheelchair athletics
official channel of the International Paralympic Committee.
Video of the final 10,000 meters men's T12 World Para-Athletics 2013
Championships, official channel of the International Paralympic Committee.

References

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