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A 24-year-old athlete died in a car accident before preparing to participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Qatari 400m sprinter Abdalelah Haroun, who won a bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships, has died in a car accident in Doha, the Qatar Athletics Federation said on Saturday. He was 24 years old.
The federation’s secretary general, Mohammed Issa al-Fadala, says Qatar’s sport and sport have “lost a great hero” around the world.
“He was in the process of recovering from an injury (in preparation) to qualify for the Olympic Games in Tokyo,” said al-Fadala.
World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that Qatari athlete Abdalelah Haroun – 2017 bronze medalist in the 400m and former world champion – has died in a car accident at the age of 24.
– World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) June 26, 2021
The Qatari Olympic Committee also mourned the funeral on Saturday.
“Team #Qatar runner-up and 400m world bronze medalist Abdalelah Haroun is dead today,” she wrote on Twitter – along with a black and white photo of the athletes carrying flowers and a Qatari flag.
We belong to God and to Him we return
The owner of the good heart, the hero Abd al-Ilah Haroun, died at God’s protection
O Allah, make him a better home than his home, and a family with a better family, and admit him to Paradise, and save him from the punishment of the grave, and hell. pic.twitter.com/xPhdhjBgu6
– Moataz Barshim ♕Barshim (@mutazbarshim) June 26, 2021
Haroun, from Sudan, represented Qatar for the first time in 2015 – he hid in his early days by recording more than 400m time.
He finished third in 44.48 seconds at the IAAF World Championships in London in 2017, behind South African winner Wayde van Niekerk and Bahamas runner Steven Gardiner.
Haroun also won silver at the 2016 World Indoor Championship in Portland and gold at the Asia Games in 2018 in Jakarta.
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