Abdi Nageeye


Abdi Nageeye is a long-distance runner from the Netherlands who qualified for the 2016 Olympics in the marathon.

Early life

Nageeye was born on 2 March 1989 in Mogadishu, Somalia. At the age of 6, he was resettled as a refugee in the Netherlands. After spending four years in the Netherlands, he then lived with his family in Syria and Somalia. Afterwards, Nageeye returned to the Netherlands via Ethiopia and was adopted by a family in Oldebroek.
Nageeye is fluent in Somali, Dutch, Arabic, English, and Amharic.

Career

Nageeye finished 8th at the 2016 Boston Marathon. Later that year he finished 11th at the Olympic marathon in Rio. In 2018, he competed in the men's marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany. He did not finish his race.
He has also trained in Kenya.
Nageeye is currently part of the NN Running Team, an international team of elite long-distance runners managed by Global Sports Communication in Nijmegen, Netherlands.