Lopez Lomong


800 m 145.58 1,500 m 332.20 1,500 m 336.52 One Mile 351.45 One Mile 351.21 3,000 m 750.36 3,000 m 744.16 5,000 m 1306.99

Lopez Lomong was born Lopepe Lomong in a small village in South Sudan to Awei Lomong and Rita Namana. Lomong was a victim of the Second Sudanese Civil War. A Catholic, he was abducted at age six while attending Catholic Mass and assumed dead by his family and buried in absentia. He nearly died in captivity, but was helped to escape by others from his village. The four of them ran for three days until they crossed the border into Kenya. Lomong spent ten years in a refugee camp near Nairobi before being moved to the United States through Catholic Charities. His name Lopez was a nickname from the refugee camp that he later adopted officially. He was inspired to become a runner after watching Michael Johnson at the 2000 Summer Olympics on television.

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