Peter Bol (runner)
![]() Peter Bol in 2017 | |
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Born | Khartoum, Sudan | 22 February 1994
Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) |
Sport | |
Country | Australia |
Sport | Middle-distance running |
Event | 800 metres |
University team | Curtin University[1] |
Club | St Kevins Athletics Club |
Team | Athletics Australia |
Coached by | Justin Rinaldi |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 1:44.56 800m |
Nagmeldin "Peter" Bol (born 22 February 1994) is an Australian middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2]
Biography
Bol was born on 22 February 1994 in Khartoum, Sudan.[3] His family fled the civil war in Sudan when he was four.[4] They lived in an Egyptian refugee camp for four years before immigrating to Australia. At the age of eight, he arrived in Toowoomba, Queensland.[4] He grew up in Perth and attended St Norbert College.[3] In 2017, he completed a construction degree at Curtin University.[3]
Athletics career
Bol was a promising basketballer in Perth, Western Australia. When he was 16, a teacher at St Norbert College suggested he try 800 m running after a promising cross-country run.[3]
In 2013, Bol stormed to victory in the junior men's 800 m at the Australian Athletics Championships in a personal best time of 1:48.90.[3] In December 2015, he moved from Perth to Melbourne to train with coach Justin Rinaldi, who also coached joint national record holder Alexander Rowe.[3] In 2016, he ran two Olympic qualifying times (1:45.78 and 1:45.41) and was selected on the Australian team for the 2016 Rio Olympics.[5] At the Olympics, he finished sixth in his heat in 1:49.36 At the 2017 IAAF World Championships, he finished seventh in his heat in 1:49.65.[6]
On 10 June 2018, at IAAF meet in Stockholm, Sweden he set a personal best of 1:44.56 in the 800 m defeating training partner Joseph Deng.[5]
References
- ^ Bol, Peter (1 March 2015). "The Power of Consistency". Runners Tribe Journal. Runners Tribe. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- ^ "Peter Bol". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f Butler, Steve (5 December 2015). "Bol on the fast track to Olympic dream". West Australian.
- ^ a b Gleeson, Michael (12 August 2016). "Rio Olympics 2016: Peter Bol, the man who ran from Sudan to Australia". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ a b "Peter Bol". Athletics Australia Profiles. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ "Nagmeldin 'Peter' Bol". Australian Athletics Historical Results. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
External links
- Peter Bol at Athletics Australia at the Wayback Machine (archived 17 March 2019)
- Peter Bol at Australian Athletics Historical Results
- Peter Bol at World Athletics
- Peter Bol on X
- Peter Bol on Instagram
- Peter Bol on Facebook
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Australian male middle-distance runners
- Olympic athletes of Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia
- Australian people of South Sudanese descent
- South Sudanese refugees
- Sudanese refugees
- Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia
- Australian Athletics Championships winners