Syrian athlete (born 1994)
Mohammad Amin Alsalami (Arabic: محمد أمين السلامي; born 25 July 1994) is a Syrian long jumper who holds the Syrian national record.[1]
Early life
From Aleppo, Syria, he is one nine siblings. Initially a sprinter, he was encouraged by a sports teacher to take up long and triple jump as a teenager. After war broke out in Syria his family was displaced a number of times in Syria before fleeing in a dinghy across the Mediterranean Sea and walking across Europe on foot. He ultimately sought refugee status in Germany, settling in Berlin in October 2015.[2][3][4]
Career
He set an indoors personal best of 7.87 metres in 2022. That year, he set an outdoors personal best of 7.88 metres.[5]
He competed as part of the refugee team at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, the first member of the refugee team to compete in a technical event.[6][7][8]
In May 2024, he was confirmed on the IOC Refugee Team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[9][10]
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