10 things about Mister World Netherlands 2024 Ahmed Haydar
Ahmed Abdulqadir Ali Haydar represented the Netherlands in the 11th edition of Mister World. He is the ninth man to represent the country in the international beauty pageant.
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BIOGRAPHY
Haydar is a Somali-Dutch model and beauty king from Emmeloord, Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, Netherlands. While reigning as Mister World Netherlands 2024, he raised awareness about heart failure and fight racism.
On August 3, 2025, Haydar turned 20. Here are 10 more things about him:
- He is trilingual.
- He was born in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- After his father died of heart failure, he made a goal to establish a heart health foundation to honor him.
- In 2024, he visited Vietnam.
- He was a Manhunt Netherlands 2024 candidate.
- He won Mister World Netherlands 2024 while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship and retail management and working in a sushi restaurant.
- He was a Mister World 2024 candidate.
- In 2025, he visited Spain, Switzerland, Turkiye and France.
- He was featured in the 2025 RTL4 show “Wishing on a Star” Season 3.
- He was an Utrecht Fashion Week 2025 model.
TIMELINE
Haydar is 5’111⁄2” tall. He speaks Somali, Dutch and English.
2024
- On July 7, 2024, he competed against 10 other Manhunt Netherlands 2024 candidates in Reeuwijk, South Holland, Netherlands. He won the People’s Choice award while Marcelinio Hartmann won the title.
- On August 5, 2024, he competed against five other Mister World Netherlands 2024 finalists at Pathé Scheveningen in the Hague, Netherlands and won the title.
- On August 13, 2024, he and Hartmann attended the coronation of Miss Independent Netherlands 2024 Suzey Bhagwat in Zaandam, North Holland, Netherlands.
- On August 20, 2024, he attended the Septimius Awards 2024 at the Koninklijk Theater Tuschinski in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- On September 20, 2024, he and Miss World Netherlands 2024 Jane Shauny Knoester attended the VIP Gala of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) at the Leonardo Royal Hotel in Amsterdam as ECF director Ljoedmila Van Vyve‘s guests.
- On September 29, 2024, he was at Palace Hotel Zandvoort in Zandvoort, North Holland for the filming of “Wishing on a Star” Season 3.
- On October 27, 2024, he participated in Bülent Türker‘s fashion show that raised €20,000 ($21,044) for children impacted by the earthquakes that struck Turkiye in 2023.
- On November 5, 2024, he traveled from Amsterdam to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- On November 10, 2024, he finished in the Top 36 of the Mister World 2024 talent competition at the Imperial Hotel in Vũng Tàu, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, Vietnam.
- On November 17, 2024, he finished 11th among the 60 Mister World 2024 candidates in their 5-kilometer race in Vũng Tàu.
- On November 21, 2024, he finished in the Top 5 of the Mister World 2024 multimedia challenge.
- On November 23, 2024, he represented the Netherlands at Mister World 2024 and competed against 59 other candidates at NovaWorld in Phan Thiết, Bình Thuận, Vietnam. He was unplaced.
2025
- He was featured in “Wishing on a Star” Season 3, which aired on RTL4 from March 9, 2025 to May 18, 2025.
- In May 2025, he traveled to Valencia, Spain and Alicante, Spain.
- In August 2025, he traveled to Switzerland.
- In September 2025, he traveled to Alanya, Antalya, Turkiye and walked for Kevin Leslie at the Utrecht Fashion Week 2025.
- In November 2025, he traveled to Lyon, France.