Mohammad Amin Alsalami

Mohammad Amin Alsalami (born 25 July 1994) is a Syrian long jumper who holds the Syrian national record.

Early life
From Aleppo, Syria, he is one nine siblings. Initially a sprinter, he was encouraged by a sports teacher to take up long and triple jump as a teenager. After war broke out in Syria his family was displaced a number of times in Syria before fleeing in a dinghy across the Mediterranean Sea and walking across Europe on foot. He ultimately sought refugee status in Germany, settling in Berlin in October 2015.

Career
He set an indoors personal best of 7.87 metres in 2022. That year, he set an outdoors personal best of 7.88 metres.

He competed as part of the refugee team at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, the first member of the refugee team to compete in a technical event.

In May 2024, he was confirmed on the IOC Refugee Team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.