Nasar Sakar Saeed ( ar, نصار صقر سعيد; born January 26, 1978, in

Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...

, as Stephen Loruo Kamar) is a

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

i marathon runner of Kenyan origin. Saeed represented Bahrain at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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, where he competed for the men's marathon, along with his compatriots

Abdulhak Zakaria Mohammed Abdelhak Zakaria (born Abdelhaq El Gourch on 20 July 1974) is a retired Moroccan-Bahraini long-distance runner. He switched nationality from his birth country of Morocco. Achievements Personal bests * 3000 metres - 7:40.16 min (1998) * ...

, and Al Mustafa Riyadh. He finished the race in thirty-seventh place by one second ahead of Eritrea's

Yonas Kifle Yonas Andebrhan Kifle (born 5 November 1977) is an Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its c ...

, with a time of 2:20:24. Saeed also achieved his personal best time of 2:10:46, by winning the championship title at the 2006

Xiamen Marathon The Xiamen International Marathon () is an annual marathon race held in January in the coastal city of Xiamen in Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is one of the prominent marathon races of the year. More than 50,000 runners took p ...

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1978 births Living people Bahraini male marathon runners Bahraini male long-distance runners Kenyan male marathon runners Kenyan emigrants to Bahrain Olympic athletes for Bahrain Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Naturalized citizens of Bahrain {{Kenya-athletics-bio-stub