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Salum Ageze Kashafali won the men’s 100m T12 at the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi, setting a new world record of 10.42 seconds

He overcame losing his sight partially at 22 and became a Paralympic and world champion

His next goal is to compete at the Olympics and break the 10.20-second barrier

‘Running for survival, and running to win’ - few truly understand the weight of those words. For Salum Ageze Kashafali, they have defined his entire life. As a child, he fled bullets and chaos in war-torn Congo with his family, endured life in a refugee camp, and arrived in Norway with nothing but hope. Every step was a fight for life itself, and every race since has been proof of how far he has come.

Perhaps that is exactly what makes him a world ch

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