Olympics, where he ran in the heats stage. Despite injuries, his career reached new heights in 2005. He was fourth at the Islamic Solidarity Games and ran a season's best of 1:46.67 minutes for fifth at the 2005 Asian Athletics Championships. Al-Azemi reached the semi-finals of the 800 m at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and ended the year with a bronze medal at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games. He changed coaching staff to Jama Aden in December and the training had quick results, as he ran a national record of 1:44.80 min to win at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix. He improved it further to 1:44.59 min with a win on the 2006 IAAF Golden League circuit at the Bislett Games and had his best run of the year at the Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria (1:44.13 min). A close duel with Youssef Saad Kamel at the 2006 Asian Games was the highlight of the year – even though the Kenyan-born runner defeated him he was the silver medallist in the event. Al-Azemi had his best run of 2007 at the Tsiklitiria meet, running 1:44.55 min, and also won the 800 m at the Bislett Games. He missed the Asian Championships that year, but again reached the semi-finals on the global stage, although he finished last in his race at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. He gave a national indoor and Games record performance at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games to win his first title at Asian-level competition. After running 1:45.79 min in Casablanca in June 2008 and was chosen to compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He reached the Olympic 800 m semi-finals, but was again last in his race on the world stage. In 2009, he won the Gulf and Kuwaiti 800 m titles and had a series of wins on the Asian Athletics Grand Prix circuit. On his third consecutive appearance at the World Championships, he was ousted in the heats stage. He was second at the 2009 Arab Athletics Championships and in November he went on to claim the silver medal at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in an indoor Kuwaiti record of 1:48.93 minutes. The Asian Indoor winner Sajjad Moradi also left Al-Azemi in the runner-up spot at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships in Guangzhou. In Moradi's absence, however, he won the gold medal at the 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. This