Ayad Lamdassem
Spanish long distance runner (born 1981) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ayad Lamdassem El Mouhcine (born 11 October 1981) is a long distance runner. Born in Morocco, he competes for Spain internationally. He has represented Spain twice in the 10,000 metres at the Summer Olympics (2008 and 2012) as well as the European Athletics Championships (2010, 2012).
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Full name | Ayad Lamdassem El Mouhcine |
Born | (1981-10-11) 11 October 1981 (age 42) Sidi Ifni, Morocco |
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Country | Spain |
Sport | Athletics |
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Lamdassem has competed at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships on five occasions (once for Morocco and four times for Spain). He was the silver medallist at the European Cross Country Championships in 2010 and 2011. He was also a gold medallist at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics. At the 2020 Valencia Marathon, he set the Spanish national record and earned a spot on the Spanish team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic marathon, where he finished 5th.
His personal bests include 13:17.49 minutes for the 5000 metres, 27:45.58 min for the 10,000 m, 61:29 for the half marathon and 2:06:25 for the marathon.