Isaac Nader, 26 yearsreached this Wednesday the highest level of his career by winning The gold medal in the final of the 1,500 meters in the Tokyo2025 worlds.
At the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo, the national distance record holder featured a final end in which he surpassed several opponents to win the race for two hundredths of a second, on the podium with 3.34.10 minutes of brand, Ahead of British Jake Wightman, second, and Kenyan Reynold Cheruiyot, third.
Isaac Nader, 26 yearsthe highest level of his career reached this Wednesday, Months after the bronze in the ‘indoor’ Europeans in Apeldoorn, and ‘avenged’ the fourth place of the last two World Cups in Glasgow, two years ago, and in Nanjing in March, where it was fourth in both.
Benfica’s middle-funder has taken a relevant new step in his statement in the world elite of athletics, In a year full of achievements, among them most of the Portuguese national records, at various distances.
Outdoors, he set new historical maximums of Portugal, in June, at 1,500, in 3.29.37 minutes in Ostrava, in June, 800 meters, at 1,43.86 in Guadalajara, and in the mile, at 3,48.25 in Oslo.
On the short track, he did the same in the 1,500, in February, setting the record at 3,32.59 in Liévin, and 800, in the national tiles in Pombal, at 1,46.18.
Nader had been a long time among the best Europeans ever
Eighth in the world ranking of this distance, Nader had been a long time among the best Europeans ever and today, With a sprint that will be famous among the sport, it was immortalized, in an event of 1,500 meters Which was marked by various absences and problems to other candidates – Jakob Ingbrigtsen and Azzedine Habz were left out in the qualification, the world champion in Budapest2023 Josh Kerr had physical problems in the decisive race.
The records achieved in 2025 They give volume to the ambition that has always combined with realism in interviews and statementsprojecting the ambition of climbing, set the step in the worldwide ‘hierarchy’, and believed its value could ‘shoot’ with the move to Spain.
Born on August 17, 1999, in Faro, the son of the Moroccan Youssef Nader, former Farense footballer, began his sports adventure trying to maintain this family bond to the pitch -which was also spread to Uncle Hassan Nader, former Benfica (1995-1997) and best scorer of the 1994/95 edition of the I Liga for the Algarvio Club.
In the transition from youth to juniors, football lost an uncommon extreme, whose speed came to be placed definitively to the service of athletics barely received a proposal from the club of Luzafter already acting by CD Faro XXI and Sand of St. John.
The fascination with running It was yielding multiple youth titles in 800, 1,500 and 3,000 metersa distance in which he became a national record holder of under-23 on a covered track four years ago (7,57.45 minutes) in Braga, at a time when he had been a fury in the senior half-life.
Nader has accumulated seven indoor and eight -air national titles
3,000 meter winner in the Superleague in 2021, Isaac Nader It has accumulated seven ‘indoor’ and eight outdoor national titles, it was silver medal in the 1,500 meters from the European Krakow Games2023 and Bronze in Apeldoornindicating a successful time.
O Finalist Statute in the World Budapest2023 stood out among the seven presences in major international evidenceBut paradoxically, he led him to dilute expectations for the departure to Glasgow2024, where he was at the door of the podium, a bitter taste that eventually surpassed.
Admirer of Briton MO Farah, ‘Olympic, World and European Astro’ of the 5,000 and 10,000 meters in the last decade, Nader is invigorating the Portuguese half, now having a world title ‘in his pocket’ and overcoming all the historical records of his former coach, from which it has separated for reasons never clarified.
In breaking with this decision, it would relaunch an auspicious career since settled in Spain with girlfriend and Olympic athlete Salomé Afonso-double medal in Apeldoorn2025, happy championships for the couple-to be guided by Enrique Pascual Oliva, former fermín bonus leader, Olympic champion in Barcelona1992, Indifferent to racist comments received because of their Moroccan origins.
The year 2025 led him to the highest place of the podium and made the couple, who rests on and pushes’ to improve, a highlight in European athletics-Afonso won silver at 5,000 meters and bronze at 1,500 in Apeldoorn2025.
