Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ya lashe San Blas Half Marathon a farkon 1983 tare da lokacin 1:04:40 hours. Ya fito ne a matsayin babban mai tsere ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka a gasar tsere ta duniya ta 1983 IAAF
, ta shawo kan Carlos Lopes da Some Muge don zama zakaran duniya kuma ta dauki lambar zinare tare da Habasha. Dukkan 'yan wasan uku sun yi rikodin lokaci guda a cikin mafi kusa da aka gama a gasar. Ya zama mutum na biyu dan Afirka da ya lashe gasar bayan Mohamed Kedir, wanda ya lashe a shekarar da ta gabata. Daga baya a wannan shekarar ya fafata a tseren mita 10,000 a gasar zakarun duniya ta farko a shekarar 1983. Ya gudu mafi kyau na minti 27:49.30 a cikin zafin jiki, amma ya ɗan yi jinkiri a wasan karshe kuma ya zama na goma, a bayan abokin aikinsa Kedir.