Sofia Ennaoui

Sofia Ennaoui (born 30 August 1995) is a retired Polish middle-distance runner who specialised in the 1500 metres. She finished fifth in the event at the 2022 World Athletics Championships as the second non-African woman. Ennaoui won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships, and a bronze at the 2022 European Championships. She is a soldier in the Polish Army; she went through the Polish military's basic training in 2019 which resulted in an injury and her absence from the 2019 World Championships in Doha.

Foot injury meant she was also unable to compete at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

Achievements Sofia Ennaoui (second from the right behind Laura Muir) races the 1500 m at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, where she won silver behind only Muir.

International competitions

Personal bests 800 metres – 1:58.98 (Chorzów 2022) 800 metres indoor – 2:00.40 (Toruń 2019) 1000 metres – 2:32.30 (Monaco 2020) 1000 metres indoor – 2:35.69 (Birmingham 2023) 1500 metres – 3:59.70 (Chorzów 2020) 1500 metres indoor – 4:04.06 (Istanbul 2023) Mile – 4:23.34 (London 2018) Mile indoor – 4:30.43 (Stockholm 2016) 3000 metres – 8:59.44 (Sotteville-lès-Rouen 2014) 3000 metres indoor – 8:45.29 (Birmingham 2017)

National titles Polish Athletics Championships 1500 metres: 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 Polish Indoor Athletics Championships 1500 metres: 2015, 2018, 2019 3000 metres: 2017