Abdi Nageeye
![]() Abdi Nageeye in 2009, celebrating his first national title at the 2009 Dutch Cross Country Championships. | ||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||
Born | Mogadishu, Somalia | 3 February 1989|||||||||||||
Home town | Nijmegen, Netherlands | |||||||||||||
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Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||
Event(s) | Long-distance running | |||||||||||||
Club | AV Cifla | |||||||||||||
Team | NN Running Team | |||||||||||||
Coached by | Patrick Sang | |||||||||||||
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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]
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
National championship titles
Personal bests
- Half marathon – 1:00:24 (Marugame, 3 February 2019) NR
- Marathon – 2:04:56 (Rotterdam, 10 April 2022) NR
References
- ^ "Abdi Nageeye achtste in marathon Boston" [Abdi Nageeye eighth in Boston Marathon]. nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2016-05-29.
- ^ "ARRS: Abdi Nageeye". Retrieved 2017-04-09.
- ^ a b c "Home / NN Running Team".
- ^ "2016 Boston Marathon Top 20 Finishers". Competitor.com. 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
- ^ a b "2018 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon – Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Nageeye and Hailu triumph at Rotterdam Marathon". World Athletics. 2022-04-10. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
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- Living people
- 1989 births
- Naturalised citizens of the Netherlands
- Dutch male long-distance runners
- Dutch male marathon runners
- Olympic athletes of the Netherlands
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Somalian male long-distance runners
- Somalian refugees
- Somalian emigrants to the Netherlands