16 year old Hamza Driouch runs 3.35 for 1500m

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12 years ago 07/30/2011 5:23pm EDT

Results from the 1500m B race in Stockholm, Sweden yesterday.

1 DRIOUCH Hamza QAT 3:35.73 PB

2 MAKHLOUFI Taoufik ALG 3:35.77

3 TORRENCE David USA 3:35.95 SB

4 LEER Will USA 3:36.33 PB

5 BIRGEN Bethwell KEN 3:36.42

6 BRANNEN Nathan CAN 3:37.92

7 KOYUNCU Kemal TUR 3:38.09

8 MOHAMED Mohamed Hamada EGY 3:38.16 NR

9 LEGESSE Henok ETH 3:38.28

10 D'HOEDT Jeroen BEL 3:38.56

11 ROFF Jeremy AUS 3:40.31

12 KEMBOI Nicholas Kiptanui KEN 3:43.54

13 MILNE Taylor CAN 3:43.93

Is it just me or does this kid look like the next El Guerrouj? He's an incredibly smooth runner with huge potential for growth. He already came 4th over 800m at the world youth championships earlier in July, only to be beaten by those three so called 'youths' who went sub 1.45. He's now the second fastest youth over 1500m this year and the craziest thing is that he actually looks age-legit!! No doubt we'll see more of this guy!

Video from world youths -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhDxzvG2RrA

12 years ago 07/30/2011 5:30pm EDT

re: Like a train

Equal to a 3:53-flat mile. Where was he born (to know whether he is age-legit)? Webb was already 18 (and 1 or 2 months) when he ran 3:53... so this kid is a bigger age-phenom than webb!?

12 years ago 07/30/2011 5:32pm EDT

re: long dong silver

He's 16 and 7/8 months (officially) just checked.

12 years ago 07/30/2011 5:37pm EDT

re: Like a train

Love how the name of the mature-looking "youth" from Ethiopia is "AMAN"

12 years ago 07/30/2011 5:39pm EDT

re: long dong silver

1:44.08, out in 50.8. Even if that guy's 22 and improves two seconds, you have a major league talent. Driouch, back a ways, looks something like El G and has a good stride for longer distances, maybe a bit floating for 8, not quick enough turnover compared to his opponents here, maybe better for 15.

12 years ago 07/30/2011 6:23pm EDT

re: jjjjjjjjjjjjj

Is he Qatari born Or another bought athlete?

12 years ago 07/30/2011 6:42pm EDT

re: Great white hope

Bought athlete. Former Moroccan.

"Fellow Briton Michael Rimmer will also face a young Qatari making his name in world athletics when he lines up in the 800m against Hamza Driouch. The former Moroccan ran 1:46.85 last year five months before his 16th birthday."

From this article:

http://www.diamondleague-doha.com/News/NewsArticles/Expect-230-says-birthday-boy-Parsons/

9 years ago 01/15/2015 2:24am EST

re: crazy person

What happened to this kid?

9 years ago 01/15/2015 5:28am EST

re: oh so crazyy

oh so crazyy wrote:
What happened to this kid?

ISIS?

9 years ago 01/15/2015 5:33am EST

re: oh so crazyy

1500 Metres 3:41.86 Moskva (CSKA) 02 FEB 2014

9 years ago 01/15/2015 5:55am EST

re: oh so crazyy

oh so crazyy wrote:
What happened to this kid?

Hamza Driouch (QAT) 3:50.90 Oslo[bislett] 7 Jun 2012.

9 years ago 01/15/2015 5:56am EST

re: oh so crazyy

oh so crazyy wrote:
What happened to this kid?

Mile:

Hamza Driouch (QAT) 3:50.90 Oslo[bislett] 7 Jun 2012.

9 years ago 01/15/2015 7:45am EST

re: Rockefella

Rockefella wrote:
Love how the name of the mature-looking "youth" from Ethiopia is "AMAN"

Still funny after all these years. ^

And fine Driouch did run a fast mile in 2012 but still that is going on 3y ago... If he were really 3s faster than Webb at roughly the same age ( supposedly), he should be on the level of the other top 1500 guys now routinely.

9 years ago 02/28/2015 2:25pm EST

re: Like a train

The field in that 2011 World Youth 800m Champs (video above) was incredible. Hamza was 4th in a field including Mo Aman, Timothy Kitum (1:42 in London in 2012), Nigel Amos (1:41 in London in 2012), Wesley Vazquez of Puerto Rico, and Leonard Kosencha, the winner. All those other guys look at least 18 or 20.

Aman entered the race with a 1:45 pr, while the Kenyans had 1:48 pr's prior to the race and Nigel Amos a 1:47.

1 Leonard KIRWA KEN 94 1:44.08 PB

2 Mohamed GELETO ETH 94 1:44.68 PB (Mo Aman, we see in the video)

3 Timothy KIPTUM KEN 94 1:44.98 PB

4 Hamza DRIOUCH QAT 94 1:46.39 PB

5 Amos NIGEL BOT 94 1:47.28 PB

6 Esrael AWOKE ETH 94 1:48.94

7 Wesley VAZQUEZ PUR 94 1:51.25

8 Abdelkerim Mohammed HUSSEIN ERI 94 1:51.85

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