Salah Hissou

Salah Hissou ( Arabic صلاح حيسو; * January 16, 1972 in Kasba Tadla , Tadla-Azilal ) is a Moroccan long-distance runner .

Life

At the 1995 World Championships , he was fourth in the 10,000 meter run . In 27:19:30 he was six seconds behind the victorious Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie and around five seconds behind his compatriot Khalid Skah and the Kenyan Paul Tergat .

At the 1996 Olympic Games , Gebrselassie and Tergat fought a duel for the Olympic victory, which the Ethiopian won in 27: 07.14 minutes. Salah Hissou was third in 27: 25.67 minutes with nine seconds ahead of Aloÿs Nizigama from Burundi. One month after the Olympic Games, Hissou set a world record in Brussels with 26: 38.08 min. This world record was broken in 1997 first by Gebrselassie and then by Tergat. In 1997, Hissou won bronze again at the World Championships in Athens in 27: 28.67 minutes, and again Gebrselassie and Tergat were ahead of him.

At the 1999 World Championships in Seville, he evaded his two permanent competitors and competed in the 5000 meter run . A close race developed, with four runners reaching the finish in less than 13 minutes. Salah Hissou won in 12: 58.13 minutes ahead of the Kenyan Benjamin Limo , bronze went to the native Moroccan Mohammed Mourhit, who competed for Belgium .

At the Cross Country World Championships , Salah Hissou won the individual bronze medal in 1995 and silver twice in 1996 and 1997 in races that Paul Tergat won. With the Moroccan team, Hissou won silver four times in a row behind Kenya from 1994 to 1997.

At the World Half Marathon Championships in Oslo in 1994 he came in 18th and won bronze with the Moroccan team, and at the 2001 World Half Marathon Championships 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 was eleventh in the Rotterdam Marathon .

Salah Hissou is 1.76 m tall and weighs 62 kg.

Personal best

• 1500 m : 3: 33.95 min, June 7, 1996, Nuremberg
• 1 mile : 3: 52.54 min, August 7, 1999, London
• 3000 m : 7: 28.93 min, August 4th 1999, Monaco
• 5000 m: 12: 50.80 min, June 5, 1996, Rome
• 10,000 m: 26: 38.08 min, 23 August 1996, Brussels (former world record, beaten by Gebrselassie on 4 July 1997 )
• 20 km road run : 57:54 min, March 7, 2004, Alphen aan den Rijn
• Half marathon : 1:01:56, October 7, 2001, Bristol
• Marathon : 2:12:45 h, April 4, 2004, Rotterdam

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2004. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2004, ISBN 1-899807-21-7 .

Web links

• Salah hissou in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Salah Hissou in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )