Abderrahmane Aferdi participated on Saturday in Huelva in the Spanish 10-kilometer road championship, where he finished second with a time of 28:19, three seconds behind the winner. The Moroccan athlete did not break his Ramadan fast before starting the race which started at 7 p.m.
Moroccan athlete Redouan Nouini, who won the Las Galletas de Arona (Tenerife) half-marathon on Sunday, is accused of doping for having missed a control.
During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslim athletes in Aragon, including those of Moroccan origin, face a real challenge: reconciling their performance obligations with the requirements of fasting.
After breaking the Italian marathon record (2h07:16), Iliass Aouani faced racist insults. On the web, he was attacked in particular on his Moroccan origins. Rather than using the same tone as his detractors, the athlete chose to respond elegantly.
In India, candidates for the Mumbai police exam fraudulently beat the record of Moroccan athlete Hicham El Guerrouj , a specialist in long-distance and middle-distance races, and were disqualified.
The 7th edition of the international para-athletics meeting, the Grand Prix Moulay El Hassan, ended last Saturday after three days of intense competition at the Grand Stade de Marrakech. Morocco shone on its own ground by winning 39 medals (16 gold, 13 silver and 10 bronze), allowing it to maintain its position as leader in the overall ranking.
After years of perseverance, Ikram Rharsalla, an athlete of Moroccan origin, became in February the runner-up in the Spanish trail championship.
Moroccan athlete Mohamed Lansi won Sunday the ninth edition of the half marathon in the city of Lucena, in which more than 900 athletes participated, with a time of 1:07:37.
The Spanish-Moroccan Adel Mechaal won the silver medal in the 3,000 meters event at the European indoor athletics championships in Istanbul on Sunday. Norwegian favorite Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the race, setting a new national record with a time of 7 minutes, 40 seconds and 32 hundredths.
French athlete of Moroccan origin Azeddine Habz won the bronze medal, Friday, March 3, in the 1500m event at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. A first for France.
The Spanish athlete of Moroccan origin hopes to win the European indoor 3,000m championship, ahead of Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen.
Since her arrival in Spain in 2011, Madjida Maayouf has been unsuccessfully trying to obtain Spanish nationality. The athlete of Moroccan origin won the national cross-country championship in Ortuella on January 29, but did not receive a trophy or medal because she does not have Spanish nationality.