Mohamed Issangar (born 12 December 1964) is a retired Moroccan

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who specialized in the

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. He competed at the 1991 World Championships without reaching the final, finished ninth at the 1992 Olympic Games, and fourth in the 1993

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. He finished sixteenth at the 1994 World Cross Country Championships, and for this he won a silver medal with the Moroccan team in the team competition. This was the first team medal claimed by Morocco in this event. On the regional level he won the bronze medal at the

1989 Jeux de la Francophonie The 1989 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as ''Iers Jeux de la Francophonie'', (French language, French for ''Francophone Games'') were held in Casablanca and Rabat, Morocco, from 8 to 22 July 1989. Sports Medals & Participation Total Th ...

, behind countryfellows

Saïd Aouita Saïd Aouita (; born November 2, 1959) is a former Moroccan track and field athlete. He is the only athlete in history to have won a medal in each of the 800 meters and 5000 meters at the Olympic games. He won the 5000 meters at the 1984 Summer Oly ...

and Khalid Skah. This was one of three all-Moroccan podiums in this event at the Jeux de la Francophonie (the other being

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

Salah Hissou Salaheddine Hissou () (born January 16, 1972) is a long-distance runner from Morocco, who won the gold medal over 5000 metres at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in Seville. With 26:38.08 he also set a world record over 10,000 metres in ...

Brahim Lahlafi Brahim Lahlafi () (born 15 April 1968, in Fes) is a retired long-distance runner who represented Morocco during his active career. He acquired French citizenship on 6 April 2002, but represented Morocco again from 15 March 2007. His greatest a ...

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and

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: Mohamed Amine, Abderrahim Goumri, Mohamed Saïd El Wardi). Issangar also won bronze medals at the

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and 1990 African Championships. His personal best times were 3.57.03 minutes in the

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, achieved in August 1990 in

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; 7.39.30 minutes in the

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, achieved in August 1993 in

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; 13.08.51 minutes in the 5000 metres, achieved in July 1990 in

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; and 1.02.18 hours in the

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, achieved in March 1992 in

Aïn Sebaâ Aïn Sebaâ () is an arrondissement of eastern Casablanca, in the Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi district of the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Af ...

.World men's all-time best half marathon
(last updated 2001)

References

1964 births Living people Moroccan male long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Morocco 20th-century Moroccan sportsmen 21st-century Moroccan people Arab Athletics Championships winners {{Morocco-athletics-bio-stub