Omar Elkhatib
Omar Elkhatib is a sprinter who primarily competes over 400 metres. He ran in the Portuguese 4 x 400 metres relay team who were finalists at the 2025 World Championships and set a new national record.
Career
Elkhatib is originally from São Tomé and Príncipe. He is a member of Sporting CP in Lisbon. In July 2023, he ran 45.73 second for the 400 metres at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland as he finished sixth in the final, setting a Portuguese national U23 record.He competed for Portugal at the World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas. He won the silver medal over 400 metres at the 2024 Ibero-American Championships in Brazil in May 2024, running a personal best 45.46 seconds. He ran in the 4 x 400 metres relay for Portugal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, helping the team to a sixth place finish. He was also a semi-finalist in the 400 metres at the Championships.
In March 2025, he ran for Portugal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, without progressing past the heats. He competed for Portugal at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China, helping the men's 4 x 400 metres team qualify for the upcoming world championships.
In August 2025, he set a new personal best of 45.42 seconds for the 400 metres whilst competing in Fribourg, Switzerland. He ran in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay for Portugal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, helping the team qualify for the final with a national record time of 2:59.70, running alongside Pedro Afonso, João Coelho and Ericsson Tavares, the first time a Portuguese team had run under three minutes.