Birth name Felix Kikwai Kibore Name Felix Kibore Nationality Qatar Height 1.68 m | Sport Athletics Weight 58 kg Event(s) Long-distance | |
Born 18 February 1988 (age 36) ( 1988-02-18 ) Kenya Personal best(s) 5000 m: 13:16.11
10,000 m: 27:35.12 | ||
Felix Kikwai Kibore (Arabic: فيليكس كيبوري; born February 18, 1988 in Kenya) is a Qatari long-distance runner of Kenyan origin. 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.
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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