Asmae Leghzaoui

Asmae Leghzaoui ( born August 30, 1978 in Fes ) is a Moroccan long-distance runner.

Life

The daughter of devout Muslims hid in their schooling their running things in her satchel, because their parents refused if a woman bares arms and legs. Only their coach at high school and club managed to convince the talent of her daughter, so that she could begin an athletic career.

In 1996 she won the Moroccan championship in the 5000-meter run. Your international breakthrough came in 1999 when she was seventh on the short distance at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. The following year she was African champion in 5000 -meter run and finished in the 2000 Olympics in the 10,000 meter race the 18th Place.

After she became at the World Athletics Championships 2001 on the same route Seventh and had brought in 2001 over 10,000 gold and silver in the 5000m at the Mediterranean Games, she turned to the road race. In the World Half Marathon Championships in 2002 she was ten, and shortly thereafter put them in New York City with 30:29 minutes set a world record over 10 km on.

At a doping test at the 2003 Cross Country Championships she tested positive for erythropoietin ( EPO). The athlete had confessed that she had the means few months earlier worried along with her husband and coach Mohammed Ar -Ar on the black market, and even injected. A two -year ban was imposed on them in the course of which she brought a daughter into the world.

In 2005, she returned to the competition scene, where there were protests from other athletes when she was invited by the organizer of a street race. Among other successes, she presented at the Freihofer 's Run for Women over 5 km on a course record.

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she took the 16th place in the 10,000 m. In 2008 she won the Ottawa Marathon.

Bests

  • 3000 m: 8:33,85 min, August 18, 2000, Monaco
  • 5000 m: 14:48,31 min, 1 September 2000 Berlin
  • 10,000 m: 31:16,94 min, September 12, 2001, Tunis
  • 10 - km road race: 30:29 min, June 8, 2002, New York City (former World Record )
  • Half Marathon: 1:08:34 h, January 31, 1999, Marrakesh
  • Marathon: 2:28:44 h 25 May, 2008, Ottawa
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