Felix Kibore Explained

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Felix Kibore
Birth Name:Felix Kikwai Kibore
Birth Date:18 February 1988
Birth Place:Kenya
Weight:580NaN0
Sport:Athletics
Event:Long-distance
Pb: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.

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Notes and References

  1. Felix Kibore. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418121828/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ki/felix-kibore-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 8 December 2012.
  2. Web site: Men's 10,000m Final. NBC Olympics. 8 December 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120821073757/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATM100100/index.html. 21 August 2012.