Abdi Nageeye

Abdi Nageeye (born 2 March 1989) is a Somali-Dutch long-distance runner from the Netherlands who won silver in the 2020 Olympics marathon.[1]

Abdi Nageeye
Abdi Nageeye in 2009, celebrating his first national title at the 2009 Dutch Cross Country Championships.
Personal information
NationalityDutch
Born (1989-02-03) 3 February 1989
Mogadishu, Somalia
Home townNijmegen, Netherlands
Sport
CountryNetherlands
SportAthletics
Event(s)Long-distance running
ClubAV Cifla
TeamNN Running Team
Coached byPatrick Sang
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Netherlands
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo Marathon

Early life

Nageeye was born on 2 March 1989 in Mogadishu, Somalia.[2] At the age of 6, he was resettled as a refugee in the Netherlands.[3] After spending four years in the Netherlands, he then lived with his family in Syria and Somalia. Afterwards, Nageeye returned to the Netherlands via Ethiopia and was adopted by a family in Oldebroek.[3]

Nageeye is fluent in Somali, Dutch, Arabic, English, and Amharic.[3]

Career

Nageeye finished 8th at the 2016 Boston Marathon.[4] Later that year he finished 11th at the Olympic marathon in Rio. In 2018, he competed in the men's marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany.[5] He did not finish his race.[5]

He has also trained in Kenya.[6]

Nageeye is currently part of the NN Running Team, an international team of elite long-distance runners managed by Global Sports Communication in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Nageeye won the silver medal in the 2020 Tokyo marathon, finishing in a season's best time of 2:09:58.

In April 2022, he won his first marathon at the Rotterdam Marathon in a time of 2:04:56, slicing more than a minute off the Dutch record which he set in the same city in 2019.[7]

Competition record

International competitions
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTime
Representing the  Netherlands
2007 European Cross Country Championships Toro, Spain 24th U20 race 20:49
2008 European Cross Country Championships Brussels, Belgium 12th U20 race 19:17
2009 European U23 Championships Kaunas, Lithuania 4th 5000 m 14:03.87
11th 1500 m 3:53.04
2010 European Cross Country Championships Albufeira, Portugal 33rd U23 race 25:12
2011 European U23 Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic 19th 5000 m 14:44.35
European Cross Country Championships Velenje, Slovenia 6th U23 race 23:54
2012 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 13th 10,000 m 29:05.12
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 6th Half marathon 1:03:43
6th Team 3:15:36
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 11th Marathon 2:13:01
2018 European Championships Berlin, Germany – Marathon DNF
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 2nd Marathon 2:09:58 SB
World Marathon Majors
2016 Boston Marathon Boston, United States 8th Marathon 2:18:05
2018 Boston Marathon Boston, United States 7th Marathon 2:23:16

National championship titles

Personal bests

References
  1. "Abdi Nageeye achtste in marathon Boston" [Abdi Nageeye eighth in Boston Marathon]. nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  2. "ARRS: Abdi Nageeye". Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  3. "Home / NN Running Team".
  4. "2016 Boston Marathon Top 20 Finishers". Competitor.com. 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  5. "2018 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon – Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  6. Connolly, John (2016-04-17). "Lelisa Desisa seeks to join elite club of triple winners". Boston Herald. Archived from the original on 2016-04-26.
  7. "Nageeye and Hailu triumph at Rotterdam Marathon". World Athletics. 2022-04-10. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
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