2008 Summer Olympics / Participant (Morocco)

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With its participation in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Morocco was represented at the Olympic Games for the 12th time. The first participation was in 1960. The focus of the Morocco Olympic squad was certainly on boxers and track and field athletes. Ten representatives qualified in boxing alone. 28 track and field athletes competed for Morocco, most of them on the medium and long distances.

Medalist

silver

Surname	sport	category
Jaouad Gharib	athletics	marathon

bronze

Surname	sport	category
Hasna Benhassi	athletics	Women 800 meters

Archery

• Khadija Abbouda

  Women, singles

On August 12th Abbouda will play her first game against South Korean Park Sung-Hyun , who has already won team gold with South Korea .

Boxing

• Mohamed Amanissi

  Men, class over 91 kg

• Mohammed Arjaoui

  Men, class over 91 kg

• Redouane Bouchtouk

  Men, class up to 48 kg

• Mehdi Khalsi

  Men, class 69 kg

• Hicham Mesbahi

  Men, class 54 kg

• Driss Moussaid

  Men, class 64 kg

• Abdelillah Nhaila

  Men, class 51 kg

• Mahdi Ouatine

  Men, class 57 kg

• Said Rachidi

  Men, class 75 kg

• Tahar Tamsamani

  Men, class 60 kg

fencing

• Aissam Rami

  Men, swords

Judo

• Mohamed El Assri

  Men, class up to 90 kg

athletics

discipline	Men	Women
800 meter run	Yassine Bensghir Mouhssin Chehibi Amine Laalou	Hasna Benhassi (bronze )
1500 meter run	Youssef Baba Abdalaati Iguider Mohamed Moustaoui	Bouchra Chaabi Siham Hilali Btissam Lakhouad
5000 meter run	Abdelaziz Ennaji El Idrissi Mourad Marofit Anis Selmouni	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli
10,000 meter run	Mohamed El Hachimi Abdellah Falil	Asmae Leghzaoui
marathon	Jaouad Gharib (silver ) Abderrahim Goumri (20th) Abderrahime Bouramdane (26th)
3000 meters obstacle	Hamid Ezzine Abdelkader Hachlaf Brahim Taleb	Hanane Ouhaddou
Long jump	Yahya Berrabah Tarik Bouguetaïb
Triple jump	Tarik Bouguetaïb

Taekwondo

• Mouna Benabderrassoul

  Women, class up to 67 kg

• Ghizlane Toudali

  Women, class up to 49 kg

• Abdelkader Zrouri

  Men, class over 80 kg