Jaouad Gharib

Jaouad Gharib
Gharib at the 2005 London Marathon
nation	Morocco
birthday	May 22, 1972
place of birth	Khénifra
size	176 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	2:05:27 h ( marathon run )
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Beijing 2008 marathon  World championships gold Paris 2003 marathon gold Helsinki 2005 marathon
last change: August 29, 2013

Jaouad Gharib ( Arabic جواد غريب, DMG Ǧawwād Ġarīb ; *  May 22, 1972 in Khénifra ) is a Moroccan long-distance runner who has twice been world champion in marathon .

Life

At the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, he was eleventh in the 10,000 meter run . In the same year he won gold over this distance at the Mediterranean Games and was ninth at the World Half Marathon Championships in Bristol . In 2002 he was tenth at the World Cross Country Championships in Dublin , eighth over 10,000 meters at the African Athletics Championships in Radès and won silver at the World Half Marathon Championships in Brussels .

After finishing sixth in 2:09:15 h at the Rotterdam Marathon the following year, he surprised at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis with a win in 2:08:31 h, setting the 20-year-old championship record improved by Robert De Castella . The marathon route should remain his specialty. In 2004 he finished fourth in the Lisbon Half Marathon and qualified third in the London Marathon for the Athens Olympic Games , where he was eleventh. The following season he was sixth in Lisbon, second in London and defended his title at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki in 2:10:10 h.

In 2006 he finished eighth in London, fourth in the Great North Run and third in the Fukuoka Marathon . The following year he was third in the Lisbon half marathon, fourth in London and third in the Portugal half marathon . In the heat race of the Chicago Marathon , he ran head-to-head with Patrick Mutuku Ivuti to the finish line , with whom he ran at the same time in 2:11:11 h. Ivuti was classified as the winner with just five hundredths of a second ahead.

In the marathon of the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he was the last to follow the winner Samuel Kamau Wanjiru . With a time of 2:07:16 h he won the silver medal. He finished sixth in the Portugal half marathon. In 2009 he finished second in the Lisbon half-matrathon and ran a personal best and a Moroccan record in London with 2:05:27 h, but was still only third behind Wanjiru and Tsegay Kebede , the bronze medalist from Beijing. He was also third in the same year in the New York City Marathon . In 2010 he finished sixth in the Lisbon Half Marathon, third in London and won in Fukuoka.

Jaouad Gharib is 1.76 m tall and weighs 62 kg. He's an out of the Middle Atlas originating Berber and began before the age of 22 years with the Running of.

Personal bests

• 3000 m : 7: 39.22 min, July 9, 2001, Nice
  • Hall: 7: 51.59 min, March 14, 2003, Birmingham
• 5000 m : 13: 19.69 min, July 13, 2001, Oslo
• 10,000 m: 27: 29.51 min, June 18, 2001, Prague
• Half marathon : 59:59 min, March 22, 2009, Lisbon
• Marathon: 2:05:27 h, April 26, 2009, London

Web links

Commons : Jaouad Gharib  - collection of images

• Jaouad Gharib in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Jaouad Gharib in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
• Athlete portrait on the World Marathon Majors website

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Beating the sun and heat, Gharib takes Fukuoka victory ( Memento of December 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). 5th December 2010