Leonard Mucheru Maina

Leonard Mucheru Maina ( born June 13, 1978 at Nyandarua District, Central Province ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner, who at times as Mushir Salem Jawher (Arabic مشير سالم جوهر Mushir Salim Dschawhir, DMG Musir Sālim Ǧawhir ) competed for Bahrain.

At the World Cross Country Championships 2000 Maina Fourth on the short haul. He accepted the autumn of 2003, like many other East African athletes an offer to start for Bahrain, and took the occasion of the change of citizenship to an Arabic name. At the Asian Games in 2006 he won the silver medal in the 5,000 -meter run. His personal best over this distance ( 12:59,79 min) he set in 2005.

His first start in a marathon in January 2007 triggered political entanglements. Jawher was the first athlete from an Arab country at the Tiberias Marathon in Israel and won in 2:13:13 h In Bahrain, this start was disapproved and the athletes extorted a public apology. Although it was announced otherwise than by the officials of the Bahrain association not deprived of their nationality, but difficulties in obtaining visas him were prepared in the following time and again. The athlete then asked the body in their home country to make the switch back. Since October 2007 he is now starting again under the name Leonard Mucheru Maina of Kenya.

In 2004 he won the New Year's run Trier, 2007 at the Darmstadt city run. In 2008 he repeated his victory in Tiberias and put it with 2:10:32 h on a course record. At the Milan City Marathon the same year he was third in 2:10:05 h, and in 2009 he was second in the Tiberias Marathon in 2:09:36 h

Leonard Mucheru Maina lives in Limuru near Nairobi. In 2003 he began building a factory for animal feed, which now has 63 employees.