Halima Hachlaf

Halima Hachlaf
nation	Morocco
birthday	6th September 1988 (age 31)
place of birth	Boumia , Morocco
size	167 cm
Weight	56 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance run
status	active
Medal table
Mediterranean Games 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 African Championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Mediterranean Games silver Pescara 2009 800 m Junior African Championships silver Ouagadougou 2007 800 m bronze Ouagadougou 2007 1500 m
last change: October 17th, 2019

Halima Hachlaf ( Arabic حليمة حشلاف, DMG Ḥalīma Ḥašlāf ; * September 6, 1988 in Boumia ) is a Moroccan athlete who competes in the middle distance run and specializes in the 800 meter distance .

Athletic career

Halima Hachlaf gained her first international experience in 2003 at the World Youth Championships in Sherbrooke , where she made it to the semi-finals in the 800-meter run, but could not finish her run there. The following year she finished ninth at the Junior World Championships in Grosseto in 2: 09.26 minutes and then won the Arab Youth Championships in Rabat in 2: 08.84 minutes and won the 400-meter run in 56.74 seconds Bronze medal. At the 2005 World Cross Country Championships in Saint-Étienne she was 31st in the U20 category in 22:42 min and then she finished fourth at the World Youth Championships in Marrakech in 2: 08.61 min before she was fourth in the Francophonie games in Niamey in 2: 09.64 min also took fourth place. In 2006 she reached the semi-finals at the Junior World Championships in Beijing , where she was eliminated with 2: 07.07 min. At the 2007 Cross Country World Championships in Mombasa she finished 46th after 24:01 minutes and at the Junior African Championships in Ouagadougou she won the silver medal over 800 meters in 2: 06.13 minutes and the bronze medal in the 1500 in 4: 20.91 minutes -Meter barrel . Then she was fourth over 800 meters at the Military World Games in Hyderabad in 2: 06.64 minutes and won the bronze medal at the Pan-Arab Games in Cairo in 2: 09.50 minutes. In 2008 she took part in the African Championships in Addis Ababa for the first time and finished fourth there in 2: 04.74 minutes.

In 2009 Hachlaf won the bronze medal at the Military World Games in Sofia in 2: 02.86 minutes, before she only had to admit defeat to Italian Elisa Cusma Piccione at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara in 2: 00.91 minutes . She also qualified for the first time for the World Championships in Berlin , where she reached the semi-finals, in which she could not finish her race. At the beginning of October she won the silver medal over 800 meters behind her compatriot Seltana Ait Hammou at the Francophonie Games in Beirut in 2: 02.76 minutes . In addition, she won the bronze medal behind Canada and Senegal in the Moroccan 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 37.73 minutes. Then she won in December in 2: 07.17 min at the Arab Championships in Damascus over 800 meters and in 3: 40.58 min also with the relay. In 2010 she took part in the World Indoor Championships in Doha and was eliminated there with 2: 03.81 minutes in the first round. At the African Championships in Nairobi , she reached the final as a co-favorite, but had to end her run there prematurely. The following year she took part again in the World Championships in Daegu and did not reach the goal in the semifinals there either. In 2012 she qualified for the Olympic Games in London , where she was eliminated in the semifinals with 1: 58.84 min . Also at the World Championships in Moscow the following year , she was eliminated with 2: 00.55 minutes in the semifinals. On October 14, 2013 she was banned for four years until December 2017 due to irregularities in her biological passport.

However, Hachlaf did not contest his first competitions again until 2019 and in one of her first races won the gold medal at the Arab Championships in Cairo in 2: 07.95 minutes. In August she took part in the Africa Games in Rabat for the first time and finished fifth there in 2: 03.82 minutes. In addition, she was sixth over 1500 meters in 4: 22.59 minutes. In addition, she qualified over 800 meters for the World Championships in Doha , where she was eliminated in the semifinals with 2: 01.30 minutes .

In 2007 Hachlaf became the Moroccan champion in the 1,500 meter run and in 2013 over 800 meters. She is the younger sister of the former obstacle runner Abdelkader Hachlaf .

Personal best

• 400 meters: 53.22 s, May 8, 2010 in Rabat
• 600 meters: 1: 28.22 min, May 24, 2007 in Bottrop ( African junior record )
• 800 meters: 1: 58.27 min, June 9, 2011 in Oslo
  • 800 meters (hall): 2: 03.55 min, February 13, 2010 in Leipzig
• 1500 meters: 4: 06.69 min, June 9, 2013 in Rabat

Web links

Commons : Halima Hachlaf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Halima Hachlaf in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Halima Hachlaf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )