Hasna Benhassi
Hasna Benhassi (Arabic حسنة بنحسي; born June 1, 1978 in Marrakech ) is a Moroccan middle distance runner.
Life
Benhassi difference at the 1997 World Championships in Athens in the semifinals in the 800 meters. In 1998, she was in 2:01,54 minutes behind Maria de Lurdes Mutola Second at the African Cup of Nations in Dakar. She was at the World Indoor Championships Fifth 1999.
In 2000 she won the African Cup of Nations in 1:59,01 minutes. At the Olympic Games in Sydney, she was eighth in 1:59,27 minutes. In March 2001, she won at the World Indoor Champion in Lisbon gold in the 1500 meter race in 4:10,83 minutes they defeated the Romanian Violeta Szekely. In the outdoor season, 2001, they did not participate in major competitions, in December her daughter was born.
In August 2002, she returned at the African Cup back on the track and finished third over 1500 meters. At the World Indoor Championships 2003, she was eighth over 1500 meters.
At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 they occurred on two routes. About 800 meters it came down the stretch to a spurt in which four runners almost next to each other to the finish line crossed. It won the Englishwoman Kelly Holmes in 1:56,38 minutes before the simultaneous Benhassi and Jolanda Ceplak in 1:56,43 minutes, another eight hundredths of a second behind Maria de Lurdes Mutola was. The evaluation of the target pictures showed that Benhassi silver and bronze Ceplak received. Five days later in the finals over 1500 meters Holmes won while Benhassi twelfth and last was.
2005 to the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki Benhassi went to just about 800 meters. As so often, it was the beginning of the final round at the end of the field and then worked his way slowly to the back straight forward. Get to the finish she could with her final sprint sprint over almost the entire field and was in 1:59,42 minutes Second behind the Cuban Zulia Calatayud. In Moscow at the World Indoor Championships in 2006 Benhassi won in 2:00,34 minutes behind Maria de Lurdes Mutola bronze and Kenya Sinclair from Jamaica.
At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, the Moroccan past fast again showed good nerves as they went along not the pace of Kenyan Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei. In the second round they ran through the field that the Kenyan could not follow, and won in 1:56,99 minutes before the Spaniard Mayte Martínez silver. A year later, at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing won Benhassi in 1:56,73 minutes the bronze medal behind the two Kenyan runners pace Pamela Jelimo and Busienei.
Benhassi is 1.66 m tall and weighs 47 kg. She is married to her fellow runners Mouhssin Chehibi, the Olympic fourth in the 800 meters in Athens.
Bests
- 800 m: 1:56,43 min 23 August, 2004, Athens Hall: 1:59,33 min, February 14, 1999 Birmingham
- Hall: 4:04,48 min, February 11, 2001, Dortmund