Salah Hissou
Salah Hissou (Arabic صلاح حيسو; born January 16, 1972 in Ait Taghia, Tadla- Azilal ) is a Moroccan long-distance runner.
At the world championships 1995 he finished fourth in the 10,000 -meter run. He had in 27:19,30 minutes six seconds behind the victorious Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie and about five seconds behind his compatriot Khalid Skah and the Kenyan Paul Tergat.
At the Olympic Games in 1996, Gebrselassie and Tergat provided a duel for the Olympic victory of the Ethiopians won in 27:07,14 min. Salah Hissou was in 27:25,67 min third nine seconds ahead of Aloÿs Nizigama from Burundi. A month after the Olympic Games presented Hissou in Brussels to set a world record with 26:38,08 min. This world record was first undercut by Gebrselassie and Tergat of 1997. 1997 Hissou won at the World Championships in Athens in 27:28,67 min, another bronze, and again were Gebrselassie, and Tergat before him.
At the 1999 World Championships in Seville, he left his two long-time rival and contested the 5000 -meter run. It developed a close race in which four runners reached the target in a time of under 13 minutes. Salah Hissou won in 12:58,13 min before the Kenyan Benjamin Limo, bronze went to the antretenden for Belgium -born Moroccan Mohammed Mourhit.
At the World Cross Country Championships Salah Hissou won a bronze medal in the individual competition in 1995 and two silver medals in 1996 and 1997 races, each of which Paul Tergat won. With the Moroccan team won Hissou 1994-1997 four consecutive silver behind Kenya.
In the World Half Marathon Championships in 1994 in Oslo, he came in 18th place and won with the Moroccan team bronze, and at the World Half Marathon Championships in 2001 in Bristol, he was eleventh. In the marathon relay, he won gold at the 1994 World Championships. In 2004, he won the 20 van Alphen and finished eleventh in the Rotterdam Marathon.
Salah Hissou is 1,76 m tall and weighs 62 kg.