When Ahmed Salah competed this was only his sixth marathon. He finished in twentieth place. Salah won a bronze medal in the 1988 Olympics. He is the only person from Dijibouti to win an olympic medal.
Omar Abdillahi Charmarke finished thirty-second. He finished the marathon in two hours, nineteen minutes, and eleven seconds.
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Djibouti at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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Before this Olympics Djibouti had not won a medal. Hussein Ahmed Salah won the county's first Olympic medal. Ahmed Salah won a bronze medal in the men's marathon. Ahmed Salah won the medal with a time of two hours, ten minutes and fifty-nine seconds, only twenty-seven seconds behind the gold medalist. Ahmed Salah finished the qualification for this event in 2:07:07, breaking the previous world record of 2:07:12. The record was also broken by Carlos Lopes, who finished faster than Salah. Lopes became the new world record holder.
Five male athletes from Dijibouti went to the Olympics to compete in athletics events. They were; Hoche Yaya Aden, Ismael Hassan, Talal Omar Abdillahi, Hussein Ahmed Salah, and Omar Moussa. This were the first Summer Olympic Games for Aden, Hassan, Abdillahi, and Moussa. Salah competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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Ismael Hassan competed in the men's 5000 meters, where he finished fourteenth in his heat. He did not go onto the next round. The medals went to Kenya, West Germany, and East Germany.
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