Habiba Ghribi
Habiba Ghribi (Arabic حبيبة الغريبي, DMG Habiba al - Garibi; born April 9, 1984 in Qairawan ) is a Tunisian middle and long distance runner. Your greatest successes it achieved in the obstacle course.
Career
First international experience gained Ghribi in cross-country running. At the World Cross Country Championships 2000 in Vilamoura she placed 46th in the junior race. In the following years she took part in further multiple World Cross Country Championships, but remained without outstanding results.
At the Track Championships in 2002 in Africa Radès was Ghribi Eleventh in the 5000 -meter run. Then she began to focus on the obstacle course. At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, this discipline was first offered for women. However Ghribi could not qualify for the finals as Eighth their forward travel. At the Track - Africa Championships 2006 Bambous she succeeded in winning the silver medal behind the World Cup third Jeruto Kiptum from Kenya.
As an Olympic discipline of Hinidernislauf of women was first held in Beijing in 2008. Ghribi finished in 13th place in the final. At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009 they increased their personal best and the Tunisian record clearly on 9:12,52 minutes and finished sixth. Previously, she had won a bronze medal in the 1500 meter race at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara.
Until then, your most significant success came Ghribi at the World Athletics Championships 2011 in Daegu. With a personal best of 9:11,97 minutes, she won the silver medal in the steeplechase behind the Russian Julija Saripowa and before the actual favorite Milcah chemo Cheywa from Kenya. The following year she secured at the Olympic Games in London the silver medal and had to again only Saripowa beaten. At the same time they increased their best performance and the Tunisian record 9:08,37 minutes.
Your medal was the first Olympic medal ever for a woman from Tunisia. Radical Islamist groups in their home country called on the government to revoke the citizenship of the athlete because they have been dressed too revealing for her Olympic run. Ghribi was started in the usual National Dress of athletes.