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{{Short description|Saudi Arabian distance runner (born 1968)}}
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{{MedalSport|Men's [[Sport of athletics|athletics]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{KSA}}}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[IAAF World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[1995 World Championships in Athletics|1995 Gothenburg]]|[[1995 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase|3000 m steeplechase]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Athletics Championships|Asian Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1993 Asian Athletics Championships|1993 Manila]]|3000 m steeplechase}}
{{MedalGold|[[1995 Asian Athletics Championships|1995 Jakarta]]|5000 m}}
{{MedalGold|1995 Jakarta|3000 m steeplechase}}
{{MedalGold|[[1998 Asian Athletics Championships|1998 Fukuoka]]|3000 m steeplechase}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2002 Asian Athletics Championships|2002 Colombo]]|[[2002 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase|3000 m steeplechase]]}}
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'''Saad Shaddad Al-Asmari''' ({{langx|ar|سعد شداد الأسمري}}) (born 24 September 1968) is a retired Saudi Arabian runner who specialized in the [[3000 metres steeplechase]].

He has won five medals from the [[Asian Athletics Championships|Asian Championships]], three from the [[Arab Athletics Championships]] and a gold medal from the 1997 [[Asian Cross Country Championships]].  He is remembered as one of the few to break the Kenyan domination in the 1990s of all steeplechase medals in the World Championships when he won the bronze medal in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1995.<ref name="worldathletics">{{cite web |last1=Turner |first1=Chris |title=The next leap for Saudi Arabia's home grown talent |url=https://worldathletics.org/news/news/the-next-leap-for-saudi-arabias-home-grown-ta |website=worldathletics.org |publisher=[[IAAF]] |access-date=28 April 2025 |date=20 December 2006}}</ref>  He still holds the Saudi national record for the 3000 meter steeplechase.

==International competitions==
{| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes|nation=KSA}}
|-
|-
|1994
|[[Athletics at the 1994 Asian Games|Asian Games]]
|[[Hiroshima]], Japan
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1995
|[[1995 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]] 
|[[Gothenburg]], Sweden
|bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd<ref name="worldathletics" />
|8:12.95 AR
|-
|[[Athletics at the 1995 Military World Games|Military World Games]] 
|[[Rome]], Italy
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1997
|[[1997 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]] 
|[[Athens]], Greece
|4th
|
|-
|[[Athletics at the 1997 Pan Arab Games|Pan Arab Games]]
|[[Beirut]], Lebanon
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1998
|[[1998 Asian Championships in Athletics|Asian Championships]]
|[[Fukuoka, Fukuoka|Fukuoka]], Japan
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|
|-
|[[1998 IAAF World Cup|World Cup]] 
|[[Johannesburg]], South Africa
|bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd
|
|}

==Personal bests==
*[[1500 metres]] - 3:41.1 min (1994)
*[[3000 metres]] - 8:12.27 min (2000)
*[[3000 metres steeplechase]] - 8:08.14 min (2002)

==See also==
*[[List of World Athletics Championships medalists (men)]]
*[[List of Asian Games medalists in athletics]]
*[[Steeplechase at the World Championships in Athletics]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{sports links}}

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[[Category:1968 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Saudi Arabian male long-distance runners]]
[[Category:Saudi Arabian male steeplechase runners]]
[[Category:Saudi Arabian male cross country runners]]
[[Category:Asian Games silver medalists for Saudi Arabia]]
[[Category:Asian Games athletes for Saudi Arabia]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games]]
[[Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Saudi Arabia]]
[[Category:World Athletics Championships medalists]]
[[Category:Asian Athletics Championships winners]]
[[Category:Asian Cross Country Championships winners]]
[[Category:Place of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Arab Athletics Championships winners]]
[[Category:20th-century Saudi Arabian sportsmen]]
[[Category:Asian Games silver medalists in athletics (track and field)]]

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