Mohamad Ahansal is a Moroccan ultramarathon runner, born in 1973 into a nomadic family near Zagora on the edge of the Sahara. He is best known for winning the Marathon des Sables five times, the first victory coming in 1998, and he has started the race nineteen times and reached the podium in sixteen of those entries. His brother Lahcen has won the same race ten times. Ahansal also holds the Guinness World Records title for the fastest crossing of the Sahara, won the Volcano Marathon in 2013 and the Silk Road Ultra Marathon in 2016, and in 2015 founded the Trans Atlas Marathon in Morocco with his brother. He lives in Ingolstadt, Germany, and runs for MTV Ingolstadt.
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