Felix Kibore
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| Nationality | File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar | ||||||||||||||
| Born | Felix Kikwai Kibore 18 February 1988 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long-distance | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 5000 m: 13:16.11 10,000 m: 27:35.12 | ||||||||||||||
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Felix Kikwai Kibore (Arabic: فيليكس كيبوري; born February 18, 1988, in Kenya) is a Qatari long-distance runner of Kenyan origin.[1] Kibore represented Qatar at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 10,000 metres, along with his compatriots Essa Ismail Rashed and Ahmad Hassan Abdullah. He finished the race in twenty-second place by nearly two seconds ahead of Spanish long-distance runners Carles Castillejo and Ayad Lamdassen, with a time of 28:11.92.[2]
Kibore had also achieved his best result in long-distance running, when he finished ninth in the finals of the men's 5000 metres at the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan.
References
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- Qatari men long-distance runners
- Kenyan men long-distance runners
- Kenyan emigrants to Qatar
- Olympic athletes for Qatar
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Qatar
- Asian Games athletes for Qatar
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
- Asian Athletics Championships winners
- 21st-century Kenyan sportsmen
- 21st-century Qatari sportsmen
- Asian Games bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Qatari athletics biography stubs
- Kenyan athletics biography stubs