Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma
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| Nationality | Libyan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1959 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | September 2017 (aged 57–58) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sprinting | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 200 metres | ||||||||||||||
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Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma (Arabic: أحمد محمد سلوما; 1959–12 September 2017) was a Libyan sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres and 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics.[1]
Sallouma was a multiple-time Libyan Athletics Championships winner and was considered one of the stars of the Libyan Military Federation in sprinting.[2] In 1978, Sallouma set his 200 m personal best of 22.30 seconds.[3]
On 20 June 1979, Sallouma set the Libyan national 100 metres record at a meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria.[4] His automatic time of 10.74 seconds was not broken until 2014, when Mohamed El Shoushan ran 10.56 seconds.[5]
Sallouma was selected to represent Libya in both the 200 m and 4 × 400 m at the 1980 Olympics. In the second 200 m heat, he ran 22.88 seconds to finish 6th and did not advance. Three days later Sallouma ran the 4th leg on the Libyan 4 × 400 metres relay team, recording a time of 3:16.7 for 6th in their heat.[6]
Three years later, Sallouma set his 400 m best of 49.29 seconds at another athletics meeting.[3] He represented Libya again at the 1983 Mediterranean Games in Morocco.[2] At the 1983 Maghreb Athletics Championships, Sallouma won the silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay for Libya, winning their only medal in 1983 and their last ever medal at the championships.[2][7]
Sallouma died on 12 September 2017 at age 58.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
- ^ a b c d "الرياضة الليبية تودع «سلومة» ألعاب القوى". alwasat.ly (in Arabic).
- ^ a b Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma at Olympedia
- ^ Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma at Tilastopaja (subscription required)
- ^ "Libyan Athletics Federation" (in Arabic).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma at World Athletics
- ^ Maghreb Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-20.
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