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- The 25-year-old鈥檚 result represents one of the Kingdom鈥檚 best performances at the Olympics
Runner Mazen Al-Yassin has produced one of the 抖阴短视频n delegation鈥檚 best performances at Tokyo 2020 by winning his race in the Men鈥檚 400m competition at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday morning.
A personal best time of 45.16 seconds saw him finish ahead of Kevin Borlee of Belgium and Ricky Petrucciani of Switzerland.
The 25-year-old will now be aiming for Thursday鈥檚 final when he takes part in Monday morning鈥檚 semifinals, starting from 2:05 a.m. 抖阴短视频 time.
Al-Yassin received the call up to the Olympics on July 2 and headed to Tokyo after eight years of consistent participation in the 400m behind him.
He represented 抖阴短视频 at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Ukraine and that same year won gold at the 4x400m relay at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Indonesia and silver at in the individual 400m at the Asian Junior Games in Taiwan.
In 2015, another silver followed in the 4x400m relay at the Asian Games in China.
In 2017, Al-Yassin鈥檚 personal best would rapidly improve, with the runner winning silver in the individual 400m race at the Arab Championships in Tunisia and bronze in the relay. The same year, he grabbed another silver at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Turkmenistan.