Yahya Berrabah

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Yahya Berrabah at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona

Yahya Berrabah ( Arabic يحيى برابح; * October 13, 1981 in Oujda ) is a Moroccan track and field athlete , best known as a long jumper . At a height of 1.82 m, his competition weight is 76 kg.

Career

On October 3, 2009 he jumped in Beirut at the Francophone Games, an event similar to the Commonwealth Games , with 8.40 m a new Moroccan record and a record at these championships. As early as May 23, 2009, at the Mohammed VI d 'Athlétisme meeting in Rabat , he improved the Moroccan record with 8.38 m, which had been held by Younes Moudrik since the African Athletics Championships in 2000 in Algiers with 8.34 m . He ended up ahead of Godfrey Khotso Mokoena and Miguel Pate at this qualifying event for the Athletics Grand Prix . One of his greatest successes was winning the long jump competition at the 2008 African Championships in Addis Ababa with 8.04 m. Second behind Salim Sdiri and in front of Louis Tsatoumas , he came in at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara . He has won the Moroccan long jump championships several times, for example in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Before 2009, outside of Africa, he was not yet among the world's best in long jump. At the 2002 African Athletics Championships in Radès , Tunisia, he was seventh in the long jump with 7.85 m, at the 2006 African Championships in Bambous , Mauritius, eighth in the long jump with 7.64 m and seventh in the triple jump with 15.85 m. In his Olympic participation in Athens in 2004 and in Beijing in 2008 , he was eliminated from the qualification in the long jump, as well as in his participation in the World Championships in 2003 in Saint-Denis , in 2004 in Budapest (hall) , in 2005 in Helsinki and in 2007 in Osaka . In 2009 in Berlin he reached the final and was tenth with 7.83 m. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , he was fourth with 8.23 ​​m.

doping

On August 31, 2009, cannabis was detected in a doping test. However, there was no sporting ban, only civil charges. On November 23, 2011 he was convicted of EPO doping and banned on January 6, 2012, first for two years, then for four years until January 5, 2016.

Top performances

His best distance in the long jump is 8.40 m (Moroccan record in Beirut) and in the triple jump at 16.44 m, jumped on December 14, 2005 in Niamey . In the 200-meter run , his best time was 21.08 s on April 15, 2006 from Rabat and in the 100-meter run was 10.47 s on May 2, 2009, also in Rabat. His 10.50 s on May 27, 2000 in Meknes was a new Moroccan youth record.

Web links

Commons : Yahya Berrabah  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on iaaf.org of May 24, 2009 ( Memento of May 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
  2. ↑ Moroccan athletics champions 1981-2005 (English).
  3. ↑ Yahya Berrabah on tilastopaja.org (English)
  4. ↑ IAAF Newsletter 135 (July / August), August 28, 2012 ( PDF , English; 177 kB).
  5. ↑ List of athletes banned by the IAAF , as of July 6, 2015 (PDF, English).
  6. ↑ Berrabah's profile on all-athletics.com (English, archive version from January 5, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Berrabah, Yahya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES يحيى برابح (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan long and triple jumper
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Oujda