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Moulay Brahim Boutayeb (Arabic: مولاي ابراهيم
بوطيب) (born August 15, 1967) is a former Moroccan athlete, winner of the 10,000 m race at the
1988
Summer Olympics.
Born in Khemisset,
Morocco, Brahim Boutayeb, although had been considered more a 5000
m runner before 1988, was quite unknown until the Seoul Olympics.
The 10 000 m final at Seoul was started at a very fast pace,
pushed along mostly by Kenyans, Kipkemboi Kimeli, and Moses Tanui. A small
lead group reached the halfway mark at world record pace, at which point Boutayeb
moved to lead. He continued the race at world record pace, but
deliberately slowed after the bell to finish in a world's fourth
fastest time of 27:21.46.
After the Olympic
Games, Boutayeb decided to concentrate again on shorter
distances, running his personal bests in distances from 1500 m to
5000 m over the couple of next seasons. He won a bronze medal in
5000 m at the 1991 World
Championships held in Tokyo.
At the Barcelona Olympic Games, Boutayeb
came fourth in 5000 m, only 0.75 seconds behind the winner Dieter Baumann
from Germany.
After being eliminated in his heat of the 5000 m at the 1993 World
Championships in Stuttgart, Brahim Boutayeb gave up the
competitive athletics and preferred to concentrate on his new
sporting interest as a rally driver.
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