Lopez Lomong (born January 5, 1985) [3] [4] is a South Sudanese-born American track and field athlete. Lomong, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, came to the United States at the age of 16 and became a U.S. citizen in 2007. Lomong qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 1500 meters at the United States Olympic track and field trials in Eugene ...

2019年10月3日 · As a 6-year-old boy, Lomong realized the power of his feet when he was kidnapped to be a child soldier in Sudan’s brutal civil war. Desperate to escape,...

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Served as the U.S. delegation Opening Ceremony flag bearer at the 2008 Olympic Games...Was one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan”Family fled Kimotong, Sudan, to avoid an attacking militia group when he was 6...Lived in a refugee camp run by Catholic missionaries for 10 years...Adopted by an American family in 2001...Became a U.S. citizen in 2007 ...

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Lopez Lomong, a Sudanese refugee “lost boy” who came to the United States in 2001 and went on to become a US Olympian who proudly represented his adopted country, visited the TWCA campus on Wednesday, November 13, 2024.

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2012年7月9日 · Lopez Lomong is a Sudanese-born American runner, who proudly carried the US flag in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. His own childhood — being abducted at age 6, fleeing across Sudan with other "Lost Boys" and spending 10 years as an "orphan" in a Kenyan refugee camp before coming to the United States — has given him a passion for improving the ...

2019年8月6日 · No one expected 34-year-old Lopez Lomong to sweep the 10k and 5k titles at this year’s USATF Outdoor Championships—least of all, himself. “How the heck did I did even do that,” he says,...

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