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Yousef Masrahi

Masrahi at the 2015 World Championships

Personal information

Born

December 31, 1987 (age 36)
Najran, Saudi Arabia

Weight

74 kg (163 lb)

Sport

Country

Saudi Arabia

Sport

Athletics

Event

400 m

Medal record

Men's athletics

Representing Saudi Arabia
Asian Games
	2010 Guangzhou	4×400 m relay
	2014 Incheon	400 m ^[1]
	2022 Hangzhou	400 m
	2010 Guangzhou	400 m
	2014 Incheon	4×400 m relay
Asian Indoor Games
	2007 Macau	4x400 m relay
	2009 Hanoi	4x400 m relay
	2009 Hanoi	400 m
Asian Championships
	2011 Kobe	400 m
	2013 Pune	400 m
	2013 Pune	4x400 m relay
	2011 Kobe	4x400 m relay
	2015 Wuhan	400 m
	2015 Wuhan	4x400 m relay
	2023 Bangkok	400 m
Military World Games
	2015 Mungyeong	400 m
Islamic Solidarity Games
	2013 Palembang	400 m
	2013 Palembang	4x400 m relay
	2021 Konya	400 m
Pan Arab Games
	2011 Doha	400 m
	2011 Doha	4x400 m relay
Arab Championships
	2009 Damascus	4x400 m relay
	2013 Doha	400 m
	2013 Doha	4x400 m relay
	2023 Marrakesh	400 m
	2009 Damascus	400 m
GCC Games
	2015 Dammam	400 m
	2015 Dammam	4x400 m relay
	2022 Kuwait	4x400 m relay
GCC Championships
	2009 Qatif	400 m
Representing Asia/Pacific
Continental Cup
	2014 Marrakech	400 m

Yousef Ahmed Masrahi (Arabic:يوسف مسرحي) (born 31 December 1987, in Najran)^[2] is a Saudi Arabian track and field athlete, who specialises in the 400 metres sprint. His personal best time for the event is 43.93 seconds, set in 2015, and is the Asian record.

Masrahi represented his country at the 2012 London Olympics and is a three-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics (2009, 2013, 2015). He was the gold medallist at both the Asian Athletics Championships in 2011 and at the 2014 Asian Games.

Masrahi served a four year competition ban from 2016 to 2020 for an anti-doping violation related to the use of EPO.

Career

His first international outing came in middle-distance events at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games. He failed to finish in the 800 metres, but set a national indoor record of 4:11.28 minutes in the 1500 metres heats. He won his first medal at the competition in the 4×400 metres relay, taking the gold alongside Hamdan Al-Bishi, Ali Al-Deraan and Hamed Al-Bishi. In the 2008 season he was based in California and began to run in the 200 metres and 400 metres instead, setting best times of 21.80 and 46.45 seconds in the events.^[3]

Masrahi won the national title over 200 m in 2009 and improved his 400 m best to 45.84 seconds in Riyadh, gaining the "B" qualifying standard. He represented Saudi Arabia at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, but was knocked out in the 400 m heats. He was the bronze medalist in the distance at the Arab Athletics Championships and also won the relay title with Saudi Arabia.^[3] At the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in November Masrahi was just beaten to the 400 m title by Ismail Al-Sabiani, another Saudi runner, but the pair teamed up in the relay to set a Games record and national record time of 3:10.31 minutes.^[4]

The 2010 Asian Games was his focus for the next season and he gained selection after winning a 200/400 m double at the national championships.^[3] He ran personal best of 45.48 seconds in the heats of the 400 m at the Asian Games, but was little slower in the final and took the bronze medal. With the relay team he anchored the men home to a Saudi national record of 3:02.30 minutes, running with Al-Sabiani, Mohammed Al-Salhi and Al-Bishi to win the Asian Games title.^[5]^[6] The next year, he won the 400 m gold medal at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan, and also won a silver medal in the relay.^[7] In 2014, he won the gold medal for the men's 400m in 44.6 sec.^[8]

He set his personal best, the Asian record during the qualifying heats of the 2015 World Championships, finishing barely ahead of Rusheen McDonald who was credited with the same time, 43.93 which at the time ranked both men in the top dozen in history. With two more rounds to run, McDonald was unable to qualify for the final, while Masrahi did, but his remarkable speed was not present in that final where even his personal best would only have been good enough for fourth place.

Anti-doping violation

Masrahi was banned from competition for four years from 15 June 2016 (prior to the 2016 Rio Olympics) to 13 July 2020 due to a failed drug test due to the presence of EPO.^[9]^[10]^[11]

References

^ www.incheon2014ag.org/Sports/Medals/MenuMedallists
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yousef Masrahi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2015-06-29.
^ ^a ^b ^c Youssef Al-Masrahi. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-07-10.
^ Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2009-11-01). Kwalia’s 3000m victory the highlight on Day two in Hanoi – Asian Indoor Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-07-10.
^ Three more gold for China, as Kamel bows out of 1500m in Guangzhou – Asian Games, Day 2. IAAF (2010-11-23). Retrieved on 2011-07-10.
^ MASRAHI Yousef Ahmed M. gz2010. Retrieved on 2011-07-10.
^ Su Bingtian takes Asian 100m title in Kobe – Asian champs, Day 2. IAAF (2011-07-09). Retrieved on 2011-07-10.
^ "Ogunode sets record in 100m win".
^ "Saudi sprinter Masrahi to miss Olympics because of doping". Washington Post. 2016-07-30. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
^ "Masrahi receives four year ban following EPO positive". Sports Integrity Initiative. 23 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
^ "Saudi suspends sprinter Masrahi from running for four years". Al Arabiya. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2024.

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Records
Preceded by Mohammed Al-Malki	Men's 400 m Asian record holder 3 July 2014 – present	Incumbent

Asian Games champions in men's 400 metres

1951: Eitaro Okano (JPN)
1954: Kanji Akagi (JPN)
1958–1962: Milkha Singh (IND)
1966: Ajmer Singh (IND)
1970: Yoshiharu Tomonaga (JPN)
1974: Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa (SRI)
1978: Abbas Laibi (IRQ)
1982–1986: Susumu Takano (JPN)
1990: Mohammed Al-Malki (OMA)
1994: Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)
1998: Sugath Thilakaratne (SRI)
2002: Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW)
2006: Hamdan Al-Bishi (KSA)
2010: Femi Ogunode (QAT)
2014: Yousef Masrahi (KSA)
2018: Abdalelah Haroun (QAT)
2022: Yousef Masrahi (KSA)

Asian Athletics Champions in men's 400 metres

1973: Yoshiharu Tomonaga (JPN)
1975: Sriram Singh (IND)
1979: Shoichi Handa (JPN)
1981: Takayuki Isobe (JPN)
1983–1985: Isidro del Prado (PHI)
1987: Mohammed Al-Malki (OMN)
1989–1995: Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)
1998: Sugath Tillakaratne (SRI)
2000: Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)
2002–2003: Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW)
2005: Yuzo Kanemaru (JPN)
2007: Prasanna Amarasekara (THA)
2009: Liu Xiaosheng (CHN)
2011–2013: Yousef Masrahi (KSA)
2015: Abdalelah Haroun (QAT)
2017: Mohammad Anas (IND)
2019: Yousef Karam (KUW)
2023: Kentaro Sato (JPN)

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