Ismail Al-Sabiani ( ar, إسماعيل الصبياني, born 25 April 1989 in

Jeddah Jeddah ( ), also spelled Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; ar, , Jidda, ), is a city in the Hejaz region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the country's commercial center. Established in the 6th century BC as a fishing village, Jeddah's pro ...

) is a Saudi Arabian

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who specialises in the

400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor runn ...

. He began competing internationally at sixteen years old, running in the heats of the

800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the ...

at the

2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics The 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Marrakesh, Morocco on July 13–July 17. The host stadium was Stade Sidi Youssef Ben Ali. The boy's 400 metres hurdles event was initially won by Sudan's Abdulagadir Idriss in a time ...

.Alsabiani Ismail M.H

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. Retrieved on 2010-12-20. His first major senior tournament came the following year in the form of the

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. Although he was eliminated in the heats of the 400 m, he won the

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in the

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with the Saudi team including

Hamdan Odha Al-Bishi Hamdan Odha Al-Bishi ( ar, حمدان عوضه البيشي) (born 5 May 1981 in Bisha) is a Saudi Arabian Sprint (running), sprinter. Achievements Personal bests *200 metres – 20.81 s (2004) *400 metres – 44.66 s (2000) References

...

Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi (born 3 March 1982) is a Saudi Arabian track and field athlete who specialises in sprint running. He won a gold medal in 4 x 400 m relay at the 2002 Asian Games and became Asian champion over 200 metres in 2005. He also c ...

and Mohammed Al-Salhi. Al-Sabiani secured a second relay gold at the

2007 Asian Athletics Championships The 17th Asian Athletics Championships were held on the Amman International Stadium in Amman, Jordan between 25 July and 29 July 2007. It was moved in the last minute from original host country Lebanon due to the unrest in that country. Countrie ...

and was the youngest athlete in the 400 m final, finishing in seventh. He was selected for the

2007 Pan Arab Games The 11th Pan Arab Games took place in Cairo, Egypt from 11 – 26 November 2007. A total of 22 countries participated in 32 events. These games were the largest in the games' history; seven new events were introduced and 2000 more athletes partici ...

later in the year and broke 47 seconds for the first time with a personal best run of 46.99 sec in the heats. He also won another gold with the Saudi relay team. Al-Sabiani started the next year at the

2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships The 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was an international indoor athletics event took place in Doha, Qatar, between 14 and 16 February. Results Men Women Medal table Participating nations A total of 29 nations were represented by ...

and helped the relay team to victory in a

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time of 3:14.25. At the

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he set a new best of 46.33 sec to take the 400 m gold and also won the relay bronze medal. Following this, he competed on the global stage at the

2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics The 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 2008 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Bydgoszcz in Poland at the Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium between 8 and 13 July 2008. Previously Bydgoszcz hosted t ...

and reached the semi-finals of the 400 m. The 2009 season saw him progress into the senior ranks. He took victory at the

2009 Asian Indoor Games The 2009 Asian Indoor Games ( vi, Đại hội Thể thao Trong nhà châu Á 2009), officially the 3rd Asian Indoor Games ( vi, Đại hội Thể thao Trong nhà châu Á lần thứ 3) and also known as Vietnam 2009, were a pancontinential indoo ...

in November with a national indoor record run of 47.31 sec. He set a second national indoor record the following day, as he helped the Saudi team to the relay gold in a time of 3:10.31 (also a Games record). He won his first outdoor senior medal in the 400 m later that month, finishing behind

Liu Xiaosheng Liu Xiaosheng () (born 5 January 1988 in Raoping, Guangdong) is a Chinese sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He represented his country at the 2008 Summer Olympics. His personal best time is 45.79 seconds, achieved in June 2007 in Suzhou ...

and

Yuzo Kanemaru is a male Japanese sprinter. He set his 400 metres personal best at the 2009 Osaka Grand Prix The Golden Grand Prix Osaka is an international athletics competition in Osaka, Japan, held in May at the Yanmar Stadium Nagai , known as the Ya ...

to take the bronze medal at the

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. The following year, he started off the Saudi relay team to a gold medal win in national record time (3:02.30 min) at the

2010 Asian Games The 2010 Asian Games (), officially known as the XVI Asian Games () and also known as Guangzhou 2010 (), was a regional multi-sport event celebrated from November 12 to November 27, 2010 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, although several events ...

.Bahrain takes two distance running golds - Asian Games, Day 6

(2010-11-27). Retrieved on 2010-12-20.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sabiani, Ismail 1989 births Living people Saudi Arabian male sprinters Sportspeople from Jeddah Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Saudi Arabia Asian Games bronze medalists for Saudi Arabia Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Athletics Championships winners 20th-century Saudi Arabian people 21st-century Saudi Arabian people