Abdi Bile
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| Nationality | Somali | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
28 December 1962 Las Anod, Sool |
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| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 800 metres, 1500 metres, Mile, 3000 metres | |||||||||||||||
| College team | George Mason | |||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) |
800 metres: 1:43.60 1500 metres: 3:30.55 Mile: 3:49.40 |
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Abdi Bile (Somali: Cabdi Bille Cabdi, Arabic: عبد الله بلي عبد الله; born 28 December 1962) is a former middle distance runner who holds multiple Somali national records for various athletics disciplines. In 1987, he became world champion in the 1500 metres, the first Somali to do so. In 1996 he represented Somalia at the 1996 Summer Olympics for the 1500 meters. His brother, Jama Bile, ran competitively for Northern Arizona University. His son Ahmed Bile runs for Georgetown University.
He was born in Las Anod, Somalia. Abdi Bile grew up in a society where most of people were nomadic. He finished his high school in a school located in Erigavo. Abdi Bile started running when he first heard of the Somali runner Jamac Karacin who got scholarship into the US. This was when running became his hobby. When Abdi was a kid he was very interested in football or soccer. Abdi Bile was a great runner but not the only runner in his family. There were many of his other siblings who were interested in running at that time.
Bile won the 1500 m World Championship in 1987, running the final 800 m of the race in 1:46.00, the fastest final 800 m of any 1,500 metre race in history. He was a two-time Olympian (1984 and 1996) and dominated the event in the late 1980s. Bile was ranked first in the world at the mile distance in 1989. He was World Cup champion in the 1500 m in 1989 and two-time world Grand Prix final champion.
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