Sofia Ennaoui


Sofia Ennaoui is a Polish middle-distance runner who specialises in the 1500 metres. She finished fifth in the event at the 2022 World Athletics Championships as the second non-African woman. Ennaoui won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships, and a bronze at the 2022 European Championships. At the European Indoor Championships, she earned bronze in 2017, silver in 2019 and bronze in 2023. She took two individual age-group medals at the European Cross Country Championships.
She was the 2015 and 2017 European Under-23 Championships 1500 m silver medallist. Ennaoui represented her country at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She is the Polish record holder for the 1000 metres both indoors and out, and also holds national U20 record for the 3000 metres. She won 10 Polish titles.

Personal life

Sofia Ennaoui was born to a Moroccan father and a Polish mother and moved to Poland at the age of 2. She is a soldier in the Polish Army; she went through the Polish military's basic training in 2019 which resulted in an injury and her absence from the 2019 World Championships in Doha.
Foot injury meant she was also unable to compete at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

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Personal bests

National titles