Mohamed Issangar

Mohamed Issangar (born 12 December 1964) is a retired Moroccan long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 metres.

Mohamed Issangar

Medal record
Men's athletics
World Cross Country Championships
	1994 Budapest	Long race – Team

He competed at the 1991 World Championships without reaching the final,[1] finished ninth at the 1992 Olympic Games,[2] and fourth in the 1993 IAAF Grand Prix Final.[1] He finished sixteenth at the 1994 World Cross Country Championships, and for this he won a silver medal with the Moroccan team in the team competition.[3] This was the first team medal claimed by Morocco in this event.[4]

On the regional level he won the bronze medal at the 1989 Jeux de la Francophonie, behind countryfellows Saïd Aouita and Khalid Skah. This was one of three all-Moroccan podiums in this event at the Jeux de la Francophonie (the other being 1994: Salah Hissou, Brahim Lahlafi, Brahim Jabbour and 2001: Mohamed Amine, Abderrahim Goumri, Mohamed Saïd El Wardi).[5] Issangar also won bronze medals at the 1988 and 1990 African Championships.[6]

His personal best times were 3.57.03 minutes in the mile run, achieved in August 1990 in Monaco;[7] 7.39.30 minutes in the 3000 metres, achieved in August 1993 in Köln;[8] 13.08.51 minutes in the 5000 metres, achieved in July 1990 in London;[9] and 1.02.18 hours in the half marathon, achieved in March 1992 in Aïn Sebaâ.[10]