Mikail Al | |
Birth Date: | 2003 8, df=y |
Birth Place: | Şırnak, Turkey |
Country: | Turkey |
Sport: | Paralympic athletics |
Event: | 1500 m, 5000 m |
Club: | Istanbul BB SK |
Disability Class: | T13 |
Pb: | 1500 m: 4:01.19 (2024) |
Mikail Al (born 2 August 2003) is a Turkish Paralympian athlete. He is competing in the men's 1500 m middle and 5000 m long-distance running events of T13 disability class.
Visually impaired middle and long-distance runner Mikail Al was a member of Diyarbakır GESK, where he was coached by the visually impared national athlete Mehmet Nesim Öner. He then transferred to Istanbul BB SK.
He competed in the 1500 m and 5000 m of the T13 class events at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris, France. In the 1500 m, he ranked fourth with his personal best time of 4:01.50. With this result, he secured a quota for participation at the 2024 Paris Paralimpics. He could not finish the 5000 m run.
At the Italian Open 2024 Grand Prix in Jesolo, he captured the gold medal in the 1500 m T13 event improving his personal best time to 4:01.19, and won another gold medal in the 5000 m T13 event with 15:28.57.
Mikail Al was born in Şırnak, southeastern Turkey on 2 August 2003.