Michael Somers
![Somers in 2022](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/2022-08-21_European_Championships_2022_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_10%2C000_Metres_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%93021.jpg)
In January 2023 he made his debit in the half-marathon, finishing 4th in the half-marathon in Seville In June he represented Belgium at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, finishing 25th in the men's half marathon. In September 2023 he qualified for the marathon at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France by finishing 16th in the Berlin Marathon in a time of 2h08:09, a mere 1 second within the required qualification marker of 2h08:10. At those Olympics he finished 22nd in the marathon. Immediately after finishing, he touched the nation by first asking a Sporza TV reporter to lend him his phone so he could call his dad who was suffering at home from a lingering illness, not getting through and then addressing in tears via live TV his dad to let him know that his name was now "forever in the record books". His dad died 3 days later. Provided by Wikipedia
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5by Howard Trachtman, Debbie S. Gipson, Michael Somers, Cathie Spino, Sharon Adler, Lawrence Holzman, Jeffrey B. Kopp, John Sedor, Sandra Overfield, Ayanbola Elegbe, Michael Maldonado, Anna GrekaGet full text
Published 2018-01-01
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