Anass Essayi

Moroccan Olympic 1500 meters runner

800 metres: 1:47.70 (Columbia, SC 2022)
1500 metres: 3:34.58 (Hengelo 2021)
Mile: 3:50.46 (Boston 2023)
3000 metres: 7:41.93i (New York 2023)^[2]

Medal record

Men's athletics

Representing Morocco
African Youth Games
	2018 Algiers	1500 meters
Youth Olympic Games
	2018 Buenos Aires	1500 meters

Anass Essayi (Arabic: أنس الساعي; born 18 May 2001) is a Moroccan athlete who specializes in the 1,500 meters event.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Essayi won the silver medal in the 1,500 meters at the 2018 All-Africa Youth Games in Algiers as well as the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. He later won the bronze medal in the 1,500 meters at the 2021 Pan Arab Athletics Championships in Rades.^[4]^[6]

Essayi represented Morocco at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where he competed in the men's 1,500 m.^[3]

He was studying Business Administration at Al Akhawayn University in August 2021 and in 2022 is a student at University of South Carolina.^[7]

NCAA

Essayi won the 2022 Southeastern Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship men's mile in a personal best time 3:57.37 at Texas A&M Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium.^[8]

References

^ ANDREW ALLDEN TITLE Assistant Coach/Cross Country Coach South Carolina Gamecocks track and field
^ Anass Essayi Olympic profile Athletics at the Summer Olympics
^ ^a ^b "Athletics - ESSAYI Anass". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-07-29. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
^ ^a ^b "Anass ESSAYI". worldathletics.org. World Athletics. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
^ "Anas ESSAYI". cnom.org.ma (in French). Moroccan National Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
^ "Athlétisme - Anass Essayi (Maroc)". les-sports.info. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
^ "The student, Anass Essayi qualified for the Tokyo Olympics". New in 24 Sport English. 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
^ 2022 SEC Indoor Track and Field Championship men's mile results Flashresults