British runner Josh Kerr ran the mile in 3 min 42 s 66 in London, erasing the world record set by Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999 . The Moroccan nevertheless retains his historic reference on 1,500 meters.
Hicham El Guerrouj has held the world record since 1998, but this supremacy is wavering. Azeddine Habz , born in Morocco and the new French record holder, is attacking this legendary time, convinced that a second and a half is a distance that can be erased through hard work.
Moroccan athlete Anass Essayi achieved a time of 7 minutes, 32 seconds and 45 hundredths in the 3000 meters indoor at the Liévin meeting in France, thus breaking the national record.
Moroccan athlete Hicham El Guerrouj, world and Olympic champion, still holds the record of 3:26.00 in the 1500 meters, set at the Golden Gala in Rome on July 14, 1998.
Hassan Koujani, former director of the Union Zemmouri Khémisset athletics club (1996-2006), calls for urgent measures to be taken to end the series of failures of Moroccan athletes over the past two decades during which the Moroccan Athletics Federation has been led by Abdeslam Ahizoune.
Hicham El Guerrouj , the Moroccan legend of athletics, said that participation in the Olympic Games requires rigorous long-term preparation and that one must hope to win Olympic medals after at least ten years of hard work.
Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen has shattered the 2,000 meters world record held by Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj for 24 years.
Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the reigning Olympic champion in the 1,500m, not only improved his own European record for the distance in 3 min 27 sec 14 at the Diamond League meeting in Chorzow (Poland) on Sunday, but he also got closer to his goal of breaking the record of Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj .
Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj set a record of 3:26.00 in the 1500 meters at the Golden Gala in Rome on July 14, 1998. A record that remains unbeaten to this day.
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 former Moroccan athletics champion, Hicham El Guerrouj , has in turn condemned the attacks against Morocco during the opening ceremony of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2022 currently taking place in Algeria.
A distinguished guest last Wednesday at the conference cycle of the Euromed University of Fez (UEMF). It was Hicham El Guerrouj , the Moroccan athlete with multiple records, who spoke with the students about his career, the sum of experiences over all these years and the sacrifices he has made.