Abdul Hakim Sani Brown

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Abdul Hakim Sani Brown
Sani Brown at the 2019 World Athletics Championships
Personal information
NationalityJapanese
Born (1999-03-06) 6 March 1999 (age 25)
Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
CountryJapan
SportAthletics
EventSprinting
College teamUniversity of Florida
ClubTumbleweed TC
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100m: 9.97 (2019)
200m: 20.08 (2019)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Doha 4×100 m relay
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Cali 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2015 Cali 200 m

Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (サニブラウン・アブデル・ハキーム, Saniburaun Abuderu Hakīmu, born 6 March 1999) is a Japanese athlete specialising in sprinting events. Sani Brown has a Japanese mother and a Ghanaian Dagomba father.[2] Sani Brown won the 100 metres at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics setting a championship record of 10.28 (−0.4) in the final.[3]

Career[edit]

In Japan, Sani Brown ran for Josai High School, a private high school operated by the same corporation that operates Josai University[4] in the Toshima ward of Tokyo.[5] and qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Summer Games running 100 in 9.99 seconds on 12 May 2019.

Sani Brown finished as runner up at the 2015 Japanese senior National Championships in both the 100m and the 200m, but did not run a qualifying time for the world championships in either event. At the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics Sani Brown equalled his personal best of 10.30 in the 100m heats to set a new championship record before running 10.28 into a −0.3 headwind to improve that mark in the final. Three days later he doubled by winning the 200 metres in 20.34 into a −0.7 headwind. The time was .16 faster than the championship qualifying standard, thereby punching Sani Brown's ticket to the world championships[6] as a sixteen year old.

At the 2015 World Championships Sani Brown qualified for the semi-final round against athletes who were at least three years his senior.

In 2016, he committed to the University of Florida.[7] In the 2019 NCAA championships he set the former Japanese record at 9.97s. He was a member of the 4 × 100 m relay team which won the NCAA Championship in 2019.[8]

At the 2022 World Championships, he became the first person from Japan to qualify for the finals in the 100m, running 9.98 in the heats and 10.06 in the finals for seventh place.[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Abdul Hakim Sani Brown – Player Profile – Athletics". eurosport.com.
  2. ^ Johanna Gretschel (11 July 2015). "World Youth Sweep Is Step One For Sani Brown". Milesplit.com. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Championships U18 Records". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  4. ^ "城西大学附属 城西中学･高等学校". Josaigakuen.ac.jp. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  5. ^ "交通アクセス". Josaigakuen.ac.jp. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Injury dashes Rio hopes for Japanese sprint prospect". 22 June 2016.
  7. ^ Nagatsuka, Kaz (10 November 2016). "Star sprinter Sani Brown decides to attend University of Florida" – via Japan Times Online.
  8. ^ Abdul Hakim SANI BROWN, World Athletics, accessed July 17, 2022
  9. ^ Athletics: Sani Brown 1st Japanese to reach 100m final at worlds, Kyodo News, July 17, 2022

External links[edit]

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