Abdul Hakim Sani Brown

In this Japanese name, the family name is Sani Brown.
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown
Personal information
Nationality  Japan
Born (1999-03-06) March 6, 1999
Fukuoka, Japan
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Sport
Sport Running
Event(s) 100 metres, 200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)

100m: 10.28 (Cali 2015)

200m: 20.34 (Cali 2015)

Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (サニブラウン・アブデル・ハキーム Saniburaun Abuderu Hakīmu, March 6, 1999) is a Japanese athlete specialising in sprinting events. Sani Brown has a Ghanaian father and a Japanese mother.[1] Sani Brown won the 100 metres at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics setting a championship record of 10.28 (−0.4) in the final.[2]

Sani Brown finished as runner up at the 2015 Japanese senior National Championships in both the 100m and the 200m, but did not run a qualifying time for the world championships in either event. His 200m personal best was 20.56.[1] At the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics Sani Brown equalled his personal best of 10.30 in the 100m heats to set a new championship record before running 10.28 into a -0.3 headwind to improve that mark in the final. Three days later he doubled by winning the 200 metres in 20.34 into a -0.7 headwind. The time was .16 faster than the championship qualifying standard, thereby punching Sani Brown's ticket to the world championships as a sixteen year old.

At the World Championships Sani Brown successfully qualified to the semi-final round against athletes who were at least three years his senior.

In Japan, Sani Brown runs for Josai High School, a private high school operated by the same corporation that operates Josai University[3] in the Toshima ward of Tokyo.[4]

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