Nadia Ejjafini
Nadia Ejjafini (#5) at the 2007 Milan Marathon.
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| Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||
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November 8, 1977 Rabat, Morocco |
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| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) | |||||||||||
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 Italy
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
| Event(s) | Long distance running | |||||||||||
| Club | C.S. Esercito | |||||||||||
| Coached by | Andrea Bello | |||||||||||
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Nadia Ejjafini (born 8 November 1977 in Rabat) is a Moroccan-born long-distance runner. She switched nationality from her birth country to Bahrain in 2003, and later became an Italian citizen by marriage in 2009.
She finished fourth in the 5000 metres at the 1998 World Junior Championships. She won the half marathon race at the 1999 Pan Arab Games, at the time representing Morocco. She won the Giro di Castelbuono race in 2002.
Ejjafini competed at the World Cross Country Championships in 2003 and 2004 and in the marathon at the World Championships in 2003 and 2005. She also competed in the marathon at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, but did not finish on either attempt. She was fourth over 5000 m at the 2006 Asian Games.
She enjoyed much success on the road circuit in 2006: she won the Tilburg Ten Miles, Diecimiglia del Garda, Parelloop, Circuito Podistico and Rome-Ostia Half Marathon that year. She also took consecutive victories at both the Corrida de Langueux and Corrida de Houilles 10K races in 2006 and 2007.
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