Ismail Abakar
Qatari athlete (born 2004)
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Ismail Doudai Abakar (born 1 January 2004) is a Qatari hurdler.[1]
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| Nationality | Qatari | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Hurdles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 400m: 45.85 (Potchefstroom, 2024) 400m hurdles: 47.61 (Tokyo, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
He won gold in the 400m hurdles and silver in the 400m at the 2022 Arab U20 Athletics Championships in Radès, Tunisia.[2][3] He competed at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia.[4]
In February 2023, he was a silver medalist at the Asian Indoor Championships in the 4 × 400 m relay in Kazakhstan.[5] In May 2023, he lowered his personal best in the 400m hurdles to 49.18 seconds at the 2023 Doha Diamond League.[6]
In June 2023, he was Asian U20 champion over both 400m and 400m hurdles in Yecheon, South Korea.[7][8] In Bangkok in July 2023, he was a bronze medalist as part of the Qatari 4 × 400 m team at the Asian Championships.[9] In October 2023 in Hangzhou he reached the final of the 400 metres at the delayed 2022 Asian Games,[10] and was a silver medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay.[11]
In Potchefstroom, South Africa in March 2024, he ran a personal best time of 48.68 in the 400m hurdles that also met the qualifying standard for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games.[12] In May 2024, he ran as part of the Qatari team at the World Athletics Relay in Nassau, Bahamas.[13] That month, he competed in the 400m hurdles at the 2024 Doha Diamond League.[14] He lowered his 400m hurdles personal best to 47.72 seconds at the London Athletics Meet on 20 July 2024.[15]
He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in the men's 400 metres hurdles in Tokyo, Japan in September 2025, running a personal best in his semi-final, prior to finishing eighth in the final.[16] He also ran in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay as Qatar placed fifth in the final.[17]
In February 2026, he won the gold medal in the men's 4x400 metres relay at the 2026 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tianjin, China.[18]
Personal life
His brother Oumar Doudai Abakar is also a hurdler.[19]
