Ismail Ahmed Ismail

Ismail Ahmed Ismail is a Sudanese middle-distance runner who competes in the 800 metres and also ran the 1500 metres. Born on 1 November 1984 in Khartoum, he stands 1.91 metres tall and weighs 73 kilograms. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he won the silver medal in the men's 800 metres, which was the first Olympic medal ever won by Sudan. His personal bests are 1:43.82 minutes for the 800 metres, set in 2009, and 3:41.97 minutes for the 1500 metres, set in 2005. Beyond the Olympics he has medalled at the African Championships in Athletics, the Afro-Asian Games and the Pan Arab Games, and he represented Sudan as a junior at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics.