MOHUMED Mohamed

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	5000m
2018	Tampere, FIN	13th (14:30.81)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Athlete

English, German

LG Olympia Dortmund [Germany]

Pierre Ayadi [club]

His younger brother Yassin Mohumed is also a distance runner who has represented Germany. He won silver in the 3000m at the 2021 European Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. (SportsDeskOnline, 28 Jul 2021; de.sports.yahoo.com, 07 Aug 2020; sportsfile.com, 18 Jul 2021)

He competed in athletics in high school in Germany. He began to focus on the sport at age 15 and in 2016 moved to Dortmund, Germany, to train under coach Pierre Ayadi, who also helped secure him a place at a boarding school. (de.sports.yahoo.com, 07 Aug 2020; laufzeit.de, 28 Jul 2020)

He played football for DJK VFL Willich in Germany until 2015, when he chose to focus on athletics. He quit football after his club failed to gain promotion to the top regional division in the Lower Rhine. "I was disappointed and wanted to try something different, especially since the teachers at school saw early on that I could run well. At the city championships and national youth games, I always won the 1000m without training for it." (de.sports.yahoo.com, 07 Aug 2020; laufzeit.de, 28 Jul 2020)

To win an Olympic medal. (de.sports.yahoo.com, 07 Aug 2020)

He runs 150 kilometres per week in training, using a mix of endurance and speed training. With coach Pierre Ayadi, he trains in a group that includes his younger brother Yassin Mohumed and fellow German distances runners Elias Schreml, Steffen Baxheinrich and Linn Kleine. (de.sports.yahoo.com, 07 Aug 2020; laufzeit.de, 28 Jul 2020)

British distance runner Mo Farah, German distance runner Konstanze Klosterhalfen. (de.sports.yahoo.com, 07 Aug 2020)

"At first I might have rested a little on my talent. I was always determined, but when you are so successful so early on, you think, 'Maybe I don't have to train so much'. But that attitude changed after a short time, the realisation came very quickly." (de.sports.yahoo.com, 07 Aug 2020)