Abubaker Kaki Khamis

Abubaker Kaki ( Abubaker Kaki Khamis; Arabic أبو بكر كاكي خميس, DMG Abū Bakr Kaki HAMIS; born June 21, 1989 in Elmuglad ) is a Sudanese middle distance runner. He is a junior world record holder in the 800 -meter run and he was in this discipline in 2008 and 2010 World Indoor champion.

Kaki won the 2005 bronze over 1500 meters at the World Youth Championships in Marrakech. In 2006 he occupied at the Junior World Championships in Beijing over 800 meters in sixth place. In 2007, he won the 800 meters at the African Games in Algiers in 1:45,22 minutes ahead of South African Mbulaeni Mulaudzi. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka Kaki eliminated in advance. In November 2007 he took part in the Pan Arab Games in Cairo. There he won in a slow trail separating over 1500 meters. About 800 meters, he won also, here he exhibited in 1:43,90 minutes a Sudanese record.

At the World Indoor Championships in Valencia in 2008, he met again on Mulaudzi. Kaki won in 1:44,81 minutes with a tenth of a second ahead of Mulaudzi. At the IAAF Golden League meeting of the Bislett Games in Oslo on 6 June 2008 Kaki improved the nearly eleven -year-old junior world record of the Kenyan Japheth Kimutai by almost a full second to 1:42,69 min. In the 2008 Olympics, he missed the final. At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 he created the semi-final collision with the Dutchman Bram Som, who crashed then as the Pole Marcin Lewandowski. Kaki busted out during summer and Lewandowski were later approved for the final. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu Kaki won behind the Kenyan David Rudisha Lekuta the silver medal with a time of 1:44,41 min.

Abubaker Kaki is 1,71 m tall and weighs 60 kg.