Zid Abou Hamed

Zid Abou Hamed

Personal information
Citizenship	SyriaAustralia
Born	(1970-04-04) 4 April 1970 Syria
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Syria Asian Championships 1993 Manila 400 m hurdles 1991 Kuala Lumpur 400 m hurdles Mediterranean Games 1993 Narbonne 400 m hurdles 1997 Bari 400 m hurdles Pan Arab Games 1992 Damascus 400 m hurdles 1997 Beirut 400m hurdles

Zid Abou Hamed (Arabic: زيد أبو حامد; born 4 April 1970) is an Australian-Syrian former track and field athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.

Career

Hamed originally began to compete for his birth country Syria. He represented the country at the World Championships in 1991 and 1993.

Hamed then changed his nationality to Australia but was ineligible for the 1996 Summer Olympics^[1] but started at the World Championships in the 1997 and 1999 World Championships. In February 1999 in Sydney he achieved a career best time of 48.87 seconds.

When Hamed was not selected for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he appealed to the Australian Olympic Committee but lost.^[2] As a result, he competed for Syria at the Olympics instead.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Syria
1991	Mediterranean Games	Athens, Greece	6th	400 m hrd	51.07
	Asian Championships	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	3rd	400 m hrd	51.15
	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	33rd (h)	400 m hrd	51.57
1992	Pan Arab Games	Latakia, Syria	1st	400 m hrd[3]	49.39
1993	Mediterranean Games	Narbonne, France	1st	400 m hrd	49.09
	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	23rd (h)	400 m hrd	49.96
	Asian Championships	Manila, Philippines	1st	400 m hrd	49.10
1997	Pan Arab Games	Beirut, Lebanon	3rd	400 m hrd	49.68
	Mediterranean Games	Bari, Italy	1st	400 m hrd	49.25
Representing  Australia
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	16th (sf)	400 m hrd	49.12
1998	Commonwealth Games	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	4th	400 m hrd	49.11
	World Cup	Johannesburg, South Africa	8th	400 m hrd	50.50[4]
1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain	41st (h)	400 m hrd	50.85
Representing  Syria
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	33rd (h)	400 m hrd	50.74

References

1. Australian Olympic Committee
2. "Olympic Committee finalises Australian team". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 August 2000. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
3. Pan Arab GamesArchived 26 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine – GBR Athletics
4. Representing Oceania

External links

• Zaid Abou Hamed at World Athletics
• Zaid Abou Hamed at Olympedia
• Zeid Abou Hamed at Olympics.com
• Zid Abou Hamed at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
• Zid Abou Hamed at Commonwealth Games Australia
• Zid Abou Hamed at Australian Athletics Historical Results