Habiba Ghribi

Habiba Ghribi
Habiba Ghribi at the World Championships 2011 in Daegu
nation	Tunisia
birthday	April 9, 1984
place of birth	Qairawān , Tunisia
size	173 cm
Weight	52 kg
Career
discipline	Middle-distance run , obstacle run
Best performance	1500 m: 4: 06.38 min Obstacle course: 9: 05.36 min
Trainer	Constantin Nourescu
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × WM 1 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Mediterranean Games 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold London 2012 3000 m H.  World championships gold Daegu 2011 3000 m H. silver Beijing 2015 3000 m H.  African Championships silver Bambous 2006 3000 m H.  Mediterranean Games bronze Pescara 2009 1500 m silver Tarragona 2018 3000 m H.
last change: March 24, 2019

Habiba Ghribi ( Arabic حبيبة الغريبي, DMG Ḥabība al-Ġarībī ; * April 9, 1984 in Qairawān ) is a Tunisian middle and long distance runner . She achieved her greatest successes in the obstacle course where she won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu .

Career

Ghribi gained his first international experience in cross-country skiing . At the World Cross Country Championships in Vilamoura in 2000 , she finished 46th in the junior women's race. In the following years she took part in other cross-country championships several times, but remained without outstanding results.

At the African Athletics Championships in Radès in 2002 , Ghribi was eleventh in the 5000 meter run . Then she began to concentrate on the obstacle course. At the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki , this discipline was offered to women for the first time. Ghribi could not qualify for the final as eighth of their preliminary run. At the 2006 African Championships in Bambous , she succeeded in winning the silver medal behind the world championship third Jeruto Kiptum from Kenya.

As an Olympic discipline, the women's obstacle course was first held in Beijing in 2008 . Ghribi took 13th place in the final. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, she significantly increased her personal best and the Tunisian record to 9: 12.52 minutes and came in sixth. She had previously won a bronze medal in the 1500-meter run at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara .

Ghribi celebrated her most significant success to date at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu . With a personal best of 9: 11.97 min, she won the gold medal in the obstacle course in front of the actual favorite Milcah Chemos Cheywa from Kenya and after the Russian Julija Saripowa was disqualified for her positive doping control . In the following year she won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in London and at the same time increased her best and the Tunisian record to 9: 08.37 min.

Her medal was the first ever Olympic medal for a woman from Tunisia.

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , she won the silver medal.

Top performances

• 1500 m: 4: 06.38 min, September 2, 2014, Zagreb
• 3000 m : 8: 52.06 min, April 28, 2013, Franconville
• 5000 m: 16: 12.9 min, June 22, 2003, Radès
• 3000 m obstacle: 9: 05.36 min ( NR ), September 11, 2015, Brussels

Web links

Commons : Habiba Ghribi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Habiba Ghribi in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Habiba Ghribi in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Leichtathletik.de: Habiba Ghribi - The Tunisian Gazelle , November 6th, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Habiba Ghribi | Profiles. In: iaaf.org. Retrieved August 22, 2016 . 
2. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: 3000m obstacle: Deceived Ghribi reaches for gold again in Rio. In: www.abendblatt.de. Retrieved August 22, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Ghribi receives Olympic and world gold medals. Retrieved August 22, 2016 .