Abderrahim Goumri

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Abderrahim Goumri
Goumri at the 2008 New York City Marathon
Personal information
Born21 May 1976
DiedJanuary 19, 2013(2013-01-19) (aged 36)

Abderrahim Goumri (

long-distance runner. He had competed in cross country, track, road running and marathon
races.

He spent the early part of his career in Norway and established himself with performances at the

IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where he helped his nation to team bronze medals at the 2002 and 2003 editions. He reached the 5000 metres track finals at the 2003 World Championships and the 2004 Summer Olympics
. In 2005 he ran a career best of 12:50.25 minutes for the distance to take eleventh place on the all-time lists.

From 2007 onwards he focused on marathon running and was runner-up at both the

2008 Beijing Olympics
and failing to finish at the World Championships in 2007, 2009 and 2011.

On 7 June 2012, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced that Goumri was provisionally suspended on the basis of abnormal blood values in his "biological passport." The French newspaper L'Équipe reported that the IAAF was recommending a suspension of two to four years for the doping offense. He received a four-year suspension.[2]

Goumri died on 19 January 2013 in a car crash in Temara, Morocco while en route to Rabat.[3]

Career

Early competitions

Initially running for the prestigious Olympique de Safi club, Goumri's first international appearance for Morocco came as a junior at the 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where he came 25th and shared in the bronze junior team medal.[4] Early on in his career, he was based in Norway. He ran at the Tromsø Midnight Sun Marathon 1997 and won in a time of 2:30:54 hours.[5] In 1999, he won the Norwegian championships in both 1500 metres and 5000 metres.[6][7][8] Like his fellow countryman Khalid Skah, who won the Norwegian 5000 m championships in 1997, 1998 and 2000, Goumri represented the athletics club IL i BUL. He took consecutive wins at the Eurocross meeting in Luxembourg, having taken the title in 2000 and 2001.[9]

He focused on

track running in 2001: he was part of a Moroccan sweep of the medals in the 5000 m at the Jeux de la Francophonie (taking silver).,[10] later running in the 10,000 metres final at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. He closed his track season with a tenth-place finish in the 3000 metres at the 2001 IAAF Grand Prix Final.[11]

He proved himself as a versatile performer over the following seasons, competing on various surfaces and distances. He was seventh in the long race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships (helping Morocco to the team bronze) and narrowly missed out on a 10,000 m medal with a fourth-place finish at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics. His tenth and fifteenth position finishes in the short and long race of the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships brought two further team bronze medals for Morocco. He also performed well on the track, coming ninth over 3000 metres at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships and then tenth outdoors in the 5000 m at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. That October he came twelfth at the 2003 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, aiding his country to fourth in the team rankings.[11]

Olympic debut

Goumri improved one place to 14th in the long race at the

Pan Arab Games.[13] Eighteenth in the short race at the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, he and his teammates Adil Kaouch, Mohamed Moustaoui and Hicham Bellani were again the fourth best (beaten this time by Qatar).[14]

He set a personal best for the 10,000 m in May, running a time of 27:02.62 minutes, and came eighth in the event final at that year's

Memorial van Damme in August with a time of 12:50.25 minutes for the 5000 m – a mark which ranked him eleventh on the all-time lists behind Hicham El Guerrouj.[15] However, this form did not translate to the 3000 m, which he ran at the 2005 IAAF World Athletics Final and managed only tenth overall.[11] The 2005 Jeux de la Francophonie was his year-ending competition and he opted for the 10,000 m, securing a silver behind the Rwandan Dieudonné Disi.[16]

In 2006 he had his last year running on the track, but managed a career best indoors over the 5000 m (13:29.55) in Stockholm that February. He continued having success at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships as he was eleventh in the long race, completing the race as the first non-East African finisher.[17] He began to make a transition to road running and at the end of the year he claimed a victory at the BOclassic 10 km.[18]

Transition to marathon

Goumri running at the 2010 New York City Marathon

Despite the fact that Goumri was 21st at the

marathon (his first since 1997) at the 2007 London Marathon, finishing second in 2:07:44, just three seconds behind Martin Lel.[20] He competed in his new speciality at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, but did not manage to finish the race.[11] Goumri looked to make amends for that performance by signing up for the New York City Marathon. Just as in London, the race came down to a battle between Lel and the Moroccan, and history repeated itself as the Kenyan sprinted ahead to win while Goumri settled for second (recording a time of 2:09:16).[21]

In an exceptionally fast race at the 2008 London Marathon, Goumri ended the race in third but still set a

Marilson Gomes Dos Santos to beat him into second place.[23]

At the 2009 London Marathon, he was sixth and there was no improvement at the

Philadelphia Half Marathon in September.[26] Two months later he ran at the 2010 New York City Marathon and came fourth, ten seconds adrift of third-placer Moses Kigen Kipkosgei.[27]

He began 2011 with his first run in Asia at the Seoul International Marathon in March and he saw off defending champion Sylvester Teimet to win the race in a time of 2:09:11 hours.[28]

Death

Abderrahim Goumri died on 19 January 2013 in a car crash in Temara, Morocco, while en route to Rabat. He was 36.[3][29][30]

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Morocco
2001 Jeux de la Francophonie Ottawa, Canada 2nd 5000 m
World Championships Edmonton, Canada 16th 10,000 m
2002 World Cross Country Championships Dublin, Ireland 7th Long race
3rd Team
African Championships Radès, Tunisia 4th 10,000 m
2003 World Cross Country Championships Lausanne, Switzerland 10th Short race
3rd Team
15th Long race
3rd Team
World Indoor Championships Birmingham, England 9th 3000 m
World Championships Paris, France 10th 5000 m
World Half Marathon Championships Vilamoura, Portugal 12th Half marathon
2004 World Cross Country Championships Brussels, Belgium 14th Long race
4th Team
Olympic Games Athens, Greece 13th 5000 m
World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 9th 5000 m
Pan Arab Games
 Algiers, Algeria 2nd 5000 m
2005 World Cross Country Championships Saint-Étienne, France 18th Short race
4th Team
World Championships
Helsinki, Finland
 8th
10,000 m
World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 10th 3000 m
Jeux de la Francophonie Niamey, Niger 2nd 10,000 m
2006 World Cross Country Championships
Fukuoka
, Japan 		11th Long race
4th Team
2007 World Cross Country Championships Mombasa, Kenya 21st Senior race
2nd Team
World Championships
Osaka, Japan
 — Marathon
DNF
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China 20th Marathon
2009 World Championships Berlin, Germany — Marathon
DNF
Chicago Marathon Chicago, United States 2nd Marathon 2:06:04 [31]

Personal bests

  • 1500 metres – 3:39.80 min (1998)
  • 3000 metres – 7:32.36 min (2001)
  • 5000 metres – 12:50.25 min (2005)
  • 10,000 metres – 27:02.62 min (2005)
  • Half Marathon
    – 1:01:19 hrs (2001)
  • Marathon
    – 2:05:30 hrs (2008; former Moroccan record)

References

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  2. ^ "Athletes currently suspended from all competitions in athletics following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation as at: 11.1.13". IAAF. 11 January 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Moroccan Marathon runner Abderrahim Goumri dies in a car accident". moroccoworldnews.com. 19 January 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
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  5. ^ Loonstra, Klaas & Gasparovic, Juraj (2010-06-28). Midnight Sun Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2011-03-20.
  6. ^ Norwegian Championships Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine - GBR Athletics
  7. ^ Norwegian championships in 1500 metres Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Norwegian championships in 5000 metres Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Civai, Franco & Gasparovic, Juraj (2009-02-28). Eurocross 10.2 km (men) + 5.3 km (women). Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2010-03-01.
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  18. ^ Civai, Franco & Gasparovic, Juraj (2011-01-03). Corsa Internazionale di San Silvestro. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2011-03-20.
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  22. ^ a b Abderrahim Goumri Archived April 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. World Marathon Majors. Retrieved on 2011-03-20.
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  25. ^ Goumri, Abderrahim. Marathon Info. Retrieved on 2011-03-20.
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  29. ^ وفاة العدّاء المغربي الغومري في حادث سير (in Arabic). aljazeerasport.net. 19 January 2013. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  30. ^ Łudzik, Piotr (20 January 2013). "Abderrahim Goumri nie żyje" (in Polish). bieganie.pl. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  31. ^ "Wanjiru in grand old time". Archived from the original on 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2009-10-12.

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