Aloÿs Nizigama

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Aloÿs Nizigama (born 18 June 1966) is a retired Burundian long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 and 10,000 metres.

His personal best 10,000 metres time was 27:20.38 minutes, achieved in July 1995 in London. This is the current Burundian record.{{Cite web |url=http://www.athlerecords.net/Records/AFRIQUE/PLEINAIR/RECBUR.txt |title=Burundian athletics records |access-date=2007-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070608102600/http://www.athlerecords.net/Records/AFRIQUE/PLEINAIR/RECBUR.txt |archive-date=2007-06-08 |url-status=dead }}

In his career, Nizigama ran 21 sub-28 minute 10,000 metres races, 2nd only to Haile Gebrselassie with 23 times.[https://www.arrs.run/NB_O10K.htm untitled]

International competitions

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1991

|World Championships

|Tokyo, Japan

| 6th

|10,000 m

rowspan=2|1993

|rowspan=2|World Championships

|rowspan=2|Stuttgart, Germany

| 7th

|5,000 m

5th

|10,000 m

1996

|Olympic Games

|Atlanta, United States

| 4th

|10,000 m

2000

|Olympic Games

|Sydney, Australia

| 9th

|10,000 m

2001

|Jeux de la Francophonie

|Ottawa-Hull, Canada

|bgcolor=cc9966| 3rd

|10,000 m

References

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