Zahra Ouaziz
Zahra Ouaziz (Arabic زهرة وعزيز, DMG Zahra Wa ʿ Ziz; born December 20, 1969 in Oulmes in the province Khémisset ) is a retired Moroccan long-distance runner.
Initial successes they celebrated with the Moroccan league titles in 3000 -meter run in 1992 and in the 5000 -meter run in 1994 as well as winning the 10,000 -meter run at the Jeux de la Francophonie in 1994.
In 1995, she finished first in seventh place in the 3,000 - meter race at the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona. The international breakthrough came in the same year at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. In the 5000 - meter race she won with a time of 14:53,77 min the bronze medal behind Sonia O'Sullivan and Fernanda Ribeiro.
At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta Ouaziz started about 5000 m, but failed to reach the final. Only in 1998 they celebrated a major success again. At the World Cross Country Championships in Marrakech, she won the silver medal at the short-range order and led Morocco to an extremely narrow victory in the team competition. In the Africa championships in the same year in Dakar, she won the gold medal with a time of 8:53,75 min and nearly twenty seconds ahead of the first pursuers. Also in 1998 she set a record in Africa 5000 -meter run in 14:32,08 m.
The 1999 season began for Ouaziz by winning the silver medal in the 3000 m at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi. A few months later, she celebrated with a second place in the 5000 - meter race at the World Athletics Championships in Seville the biggest success of her career. With a time of 14:43,15 min she had to only the defending champion Gabriela Szabo defeated. Shortly before Oaziz had set up with 8:26,48 min over 3000 m another Africa record.
Ouaziz scored her last major success at the World Cross Country Championships 2000 in Vilamoura, when she won the silver medal on the short distance back. After that, you still managed a fourth place over 3000m at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003. During their participation in the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003 and at the World Cross Country Championships in 2003 and 2004, she could not place in the top ten is. Due to ongoing injury problems she ended her active career in 2004 and took a job as a junior trainer.
Zahra Ouaziz is 1,66 m tall and weighed to their active 50 kg. Her younger sister Seloua Ouaziz was also active as a long-distance runner.