Nezha Bidouane

Nezha Bidouane
nation	Morocco
birthday	18th September 1969
place of birth	Rabat ,  Morocco
size	174 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	Hurdles
Best performance	52.90 s ( 400 m )
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Sydney 2000 400 m hurdles  World championships gold Athens 1997 400 m hurdles silver Seville 1999 400 m hurdles gold Edmonton 2001 400 m hurdles  African Championships gold Cairo 1990 400 m hurdles silver Cairo 1990 100 m hurdles gold Dakar 1998 400 m hurdles

Nezha Bidouane ( Arabic نزهة بدوان, DMG Nuzha Bidwān ; * September 18, 1969 in Rabat ) is a former Moroccan athlete who was one of the world's best 400-meter hurdlers from the early 1990s to 2001 . At the 1997 World Championships in Athens, she became the first woman to win an athletics world title for Morocco. In 2001 she became world champion for the second time.

Nezha Bidouanes first international success was the victory in the Africa Championship in 1990. In 1991 she first took part in the World Athletics Championships, where she reached the semifinals (56.62 s). She also made it to the semi-finals at the 1992 Olympic Games (55.08 s).

After a long sporting career with further medal places at world championships and the Olympic Games, she ran her last race on October 6, 2004 in Algiers , which she won. With her best time of 52.90 seconds, set on August 25, 1999 at the 1999 World Championships , she was 9th on the all-time best in the world at the end of the 2007 season (see 400-meter hurdles ).

Bidouane is married to the 3000 meter obstacle runner Abdelaziz Sahere (* 1967, sixth in the 1991 world championship). At a height of 1.74 m, she had a competition weight of 65 kg.

Web links

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