Habiba Ghribi
Ghribi at the 2012 Olympics
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| Nickname(s) | Bibi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Tunisian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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9 April 1984 Kairouan, Tunisia |
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| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 49 kg (108 lb; 7.7 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | habibaghribi.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |
 Tunisia
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 3000 metres steeplechase | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Constantin Nourescu (ROU) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Habiba Ghribi (born 9 April 1984) is a Tunisian middle- and long-distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, giving her country its first Olympic medal by a woman. She is also the Tunisian record holder in the event, having run 9:05.36 at the Memorial van Damme in Brussels in September 2015.
Ghribi competed at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships a number of times but found greater success on the track, winning a steeplechase silver at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics and a bronze in the 1500 metres at the 2009 Mediterranean Games. She represented Tunisia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing thirteenth in the first ever women's Olympic steeplechase race. In the 2016 Müller Anniversary Games, she won the women's 3000m steeplechase. She was voted the Best Sportswoman of 2009 by the Arabic daily newspaper Assahafa.
Ghribi began her career as a cross country runner and competed in the junior race at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships at the age of fifteen, finishing in 46th place (the second best of the Tunisian team). She competed in the senior short race in 2002, finishing in 76th. Ghribi competed at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics in Radès, Tunisia and ended up in 11th place in the 5000 metres final. Ghribi won the gold in the junior race at the 2002 Pan Arab Cross Country Championships. She also went back to the junior race in 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, improving to 23rd place and heading the Tunisian team to 7th place overall. After modest finishes in the World Cross Country short race in the 2004 and 2005, she switched to focus on the 3000 m steeplechase on the track instead when it became a world championship event.
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