Abdi Nageeye (born 2 March 1989) is a Somali-Dutch long-distance runner from the Netherlands who won silver in the 2020 Olympics marathon.[1]
![]() Abdi Nageeye in 2009, celebrating his first national title at the 2009 Dutch Cross Country Championships. | ||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||
Born | (1989-02-03) 3 February 1989 (age 33) Mogadishu, Somalia | |||||||||||||
Home town | Nijmegen, Netherlands | |||||||||||||
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Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||
Event(s) | Long-distance running | |||||||||||||
Club | AV Cifla | |||||||||||||
Team | NN Running Team | |||||||||||||
Coached by | Patrick Sang | |||||||||||||
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Nageeye was born on 2 March 1989 in Mogadishu, Somalia.[2] At the age of 6, he was resettled as a refugee in the Netherlands.[3] After spending four years in the Netherlands, he then lived with his family in Syria and Somalia. Afterwards, Nageeye returned to the Netherlands via Ethiopia and was adopted by a family in Oldebroek.[3]
Nageeye is fluent in Somali, Dutch, Arabic, English, and Amharic.[3]
Nageeye finished 8th at the 2016 Boston Marathon.[4] Later that year he finished 11th at the Olympic marathon in Rio. In 2018, he competed in the men's marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany.[5] He did not finish his race.[5]
He has also trained in Kenya.[6]
Nageeye is currently part of the NN Running Team, an international team of elite long-distance runners managed by Global Sports Communication in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Nageeye won the silver medal in the 2020 Tokyo marathon, finishing in a season's best time of 2:09:58.
In April 2022, he won his first marathon at the Rotterdam Marathon in a time of 2:04:56, slicing more than a minute off the Dutch record which he set in the same city in 2019.[7]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time |
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2007 | European Cross Country Championships | Toro, Spain | 24th | U20 race | 20:49 |
2008 | European Cross Country Championships | Brussels, Belgium | 12th | U20 race | 19:17 |
2009 | European U23 Championships | Kaunas, Lithuania | 4th | 5000 m | 14:03.87 |
11th | 1500 m | 3:53.04 | |||
2010 | European Cross Country Championships | Albufeira, Portugal | 33rd | U23 race | 25:12 |
2011 | European U23 Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 19th | 5000 m | 14:44.35 |
European Cross Country Championships | Velenje, Slovenia | 6th | U23 race | 23:54 | |
2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 13th | 10,000 m | 29:05.12 |
2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6th | Half marathon | 1:03:43 |
6th | Team | 3:15:36 | |||
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 11th | Marathon | 2:13:01 | |
2018 | European Championships | Berlin, Germany | – | Marathon | DNF |
2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 2nd | Marathon | 2:09:58 SB |
2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | – | Marathon | DNF |
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2016 | Boston Marathon | Boston, United States | 8th | Marathon | 2:18:05 |
2018 | Boston Marathon | Boston, United States | 7th | Marathon | 2:23:16 |
Rotterdam Marathon – men's winners | |
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