Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin ( ar, خميس عبدالله سيف الدين; born 1 February 1976) is a

Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it ...

i runner who specialized in the 3000 metre steeplechase. He is of Sudanese descent.Here comes the foreign legion
Al Jazeera, 23 November 2006. He represented Sudan at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

and Qatar at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

and the 2004 Summer Olympics. In addition he has medals from the Asian Athletics Championships, the Gulf Cooperation Council Championships, the

West Asian Games The West Asian Games (also known as the WAG) was a multi-sport event held every four years among the athletes from West Asia. The West Asian Games was first organised in Tehran, Iran and was considered as the first of its kind. The success of th ...

and the Arab Athletics Championships.

International competitions

Personal bests

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athle ...

- 3:44.26 min (2004) * 3000 metres - 8:04.41 min (1999) * 3000 metre steeplechase - 8:13.45 min (2002) * 5000 metres - 13:36.93 min (1999)

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* 1976 births Living people Qatari male steeplechase runners Qatari male long-distance runners Sudanese male middle-distance runners Sudanese male long-distance runners Qatari male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes of Sudan Olympic athletes of Qatar Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Qatar Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Asian Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Qatar Qatari people of Sudanese descent Sudanese emigrants to Qatar Naturalised citizens of Qatar Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Universiade medalists for Qatar {{Sudan-athletics-bio-stub